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Plant + Insect Sciences: Sep 22, 2010
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Supporting the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Wisconsin - Madison. Wednesday, September 22, 2010. 9/29-10/3: Wisconsin Book Festival. This year's WI Book Festival. Theme is "Beliefs." Events of particular interest to plant and insect researchers:. A Legacy of Conservation. Wednesday, September 29 3:30-6 PM. Venue: Wisconsin Union Theater/Memorial Union. Please join us for a special program to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service.
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Plant + Insect Sciences: Jul 30, 2010
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Supporting the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Wisconsin - Madison. Friday, July 30, 2010. Applied Engineering in Agriculture. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture. Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers. Wang, N., Zhang, N.Q., Wang, M.H. (2006). Wireless sensors in agriculture and food industry. Recent development and future perspective. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 50(1): 1-14. Precision Agriculture, 6(1): 7-23. Pierce, F&...
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Plant + Insect Sciences: Preserving biodiversity: Seed saving and Seed banks
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Supporting the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Wisconsin - Madison. Tuesday, April 12, 2011. Preserving biodiversity: Seed saving and Seed banks. Who preserves and controls crop biodiversity? How and why do they do it? Agriculture, biodiversity and markets. Livelihoods and agroecology in comparative perspective. Agrobiodiversity conservation and economic development. Access and benefit sharing. A new approach to protecting traditional knowledge. Global exchange as enclosure.
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Plant + Insect Sciences: Sep 29, 2011
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Supporting the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Wisconsin - Madison. Thursday, September 29, 2011. OECD iLibrary = international development e-books more. Find international development e-books, research papers, and statistical publications by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in UW-Madison's subscription to OECD iLibrary. Selected recent titles of interest:. Bioheat, Biopower and Biogas: Developments and Implications for Agriculture. Links to this post.
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Plant + Insect Sciences: Sep 30, 2010
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Supporting the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Wisconsin - Madison. Thursday, September 30, 2010. Golf courses go greener. Turfgrass managers have taken up the mantle of sustainability. Over the past decade, a number of golf courses around the country have even started to " go organic. Some of the alternatives to synthetic pesticides proposed by one golf course site. 3 Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis). 8 Horticultural oils (vegetable-based instead of petrochemical based). Ecological g...
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Plant + Insect Sciences: Sep 2, 2010
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Supporting the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Wisconsin - Madison. Thursday, September 2, 2010. Bedbugs: infestations on the rise. You may have heard that blood-sucking bedbugs are spreading throughout the country and world, years after they were thought to have been largely eradicated in the United States. Bedbugs are insects in the Cimicidae family. Unfortunately, the 'common bedbug' Cimex lectularius. Bed Bugs in Wisconsin. 2008 UW Extension publication]. Or, bed bug [1793].
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Plant + Insect Sciences: Apr 12, 2011
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Supporting the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Wisconsin - Madison. Tuesday, April 12, 2011. Preserving biodiversity: Seed saving and Seed banks. Who preserves and controls crop biodiversity? How and why do they do it? Agriculture, biodiversity and markets. Livelihoods and agroecology in comparative perspective. Agrobiodiversity conservation and economic development. Access and benefit sharing. A new approach to protecting traditional knowledge. Global exchange as enclosure.
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Plant + Insect Sciences: Precision agriculture
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Supporting the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Wisconsin - Madison. Friday, July 30, 2010. Applied Engineering in Agriculture. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture. Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers. Wang, N., Zhang, N.Q., Wang, M.H. (2006). Wireless sensors in agriculture and food industry. Recent development and future perspective. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 50(1): 1-14. Precision Agriculture, 6(1): 7-23. Pierce, F&...
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Plant + Insect Sciences: 9/29-10/3: Wisconsin Book Festival
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Supporting the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Wisconsin - Madison. Wednesday, September 22, 2010. 9/29-10/3: Wisconsin Book Festival. This year's WI Book Festival. Theme is "Beliefs." Events of particular interest to plant and insect researchers:. A Legacy of Conservation. Wednesday, September 29 3:30-6 PM. Venue: Wisconsin Union Theater/Memorial Union. Please join us for a special program to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service.
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Plant + Insect Sciences: Jan 6, 2011
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Supporting the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Wisconsin - Madison. Thursday, January 6, 2011. Bee populations collapsing worldwide. Four previously abundant species of bumblebee are close to disappearing in the United States". About the research article " Patterns of widespread decline in North American bumble bees. Colony Collapse Disorder Bee pathology. Proceedings of the First International Conference on the Asian Honey Bees and Bee Mites (1993). Hearing before the Subcommitt...
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