Priority Area: Growing farm business and community
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Improving anaerobic digester performance through microaeration
Anaerobic digestion is the process of microbial decomposition of organic substances, including dairy manure, in the absence of oxygen. Anaerobic digestion is an effective tool but is too costly for…
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Evaluation of dairy fiber as an organic addendum to horticultural media used for growing native plants
This project will evaluate the effectiveness of hot composted dairy fiber as an organic addendum to horticultural growing medium, usually sphagnum moss peat, used in the production of native plant…
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A systematic review of the economics of nutritional interventions to reduce enteric methane production in dairy cows
Enteric methane from dairy cows is an important source of methane emissions and has been increasing more rapidly than emissions from beef production. Methods proposed to decrease enteric methane production…
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Rural economic development in Wisconsin: Analysis of intergenerational mobility and community-centered case studies
This project aims to addresses the question of how to initiate rural economic development projects, from the perspective of rural local officials. Research on rural economic development is limited by…
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Developing capacity for chromatography techniques at the College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences, UW–River Falls
Hassanpour’s project aims to enhance the capacity for chemical analysis in UW–River Fall’s College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences by acquiring two chromatography systems, a gas chromatograph and a…
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Evaluating trends in female to male ratios in dairy science and related programs throughout Wisconsin and the Midwest region and the translation into post-secondary employment
There is a large presence of women in dairy science and other agriculture related programs within Wisconsin’s four-year, two-year, and technical college programs. Current data in Wisconsin indicates that for…
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Dairy protein biocomposites development using selective laser sintering 3D printing process
Obielodan’s project will investigate the use of casein for engineering products manufacturing using a 3D printing process called selective laser sintering. Previous investigations demonstrates that casein can be used as…
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Towards optimized usage of the milking robot using data analytics
Ashrafuzzaman’s project will collect data generated by milking robots and create a curated dataset. This dataset will be used to perform machine learning based data analytics to uncover and better…
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High temperature rapid viscoanalyzer to analyze dairy beverages, cheese, and competing products
Girard’s project will use a new, high temperature rheometer to assess viscosity of heated dairy systems and to use as a small batch reactor in an effort to improve dairy…
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Technological approaches to reduce incidence of biogenic amines in Block-Gouda cheese for export markets
In recent years, US exports of Block-Gouda cheese has exhibited an important increase in target markets from Latin America and Asia. However, Gouda cheese is generally prone to develop biogenic…
