Priority Area: Stewarding land and water resources
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Dairy Water Quality Research Station: A campus-wide long-term lysimeter network in Wisconsin
Zhu-Barker’s project aims to build a campus-wide Dairy Water Quality Research Station for long-term nutrient transport monitoring, modeling, and management for sustainable dairy production in Wisconsin. The station will use…
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Purchase of a no-till drill to enhance dairy conservation cropping system research at Peninsular Agriculture Research Station
Wiepz’s project will use a new, 10-foot no-till drill to expand Peninsular Agriculture Research Station’s capacity to collaborate on dairy-focused conservation cropping system research. Innovative crop rotation alterations and/or enhancements…
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Cold season hydrology and frozen soils laboratory capacity building
Thompson’s project aims to improve existing facilities at UW–Madison to conduct research related to frozen soils and wintertime nutrient loss. The new equipment will enhance the capacity to create controlled…
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A greenhouse gas measurement system for dairy agroecosystems
Stoy’s project aims to improve existing greenhouse gas measurement capabilities across the UW System by acquiring a GasMet GT5000 Terra, a portable gas analyzer. It will be a shared resource…
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Increasing research capacity in enteric methane emissions and sustainable dairy farming: acquisition of a GreenFeed unit
Peñagaricano’s project utilizes a C-Lock GreenFeed unit, an automated, head-chamber type system, to monitor methane and carbon dioxide mass fluxes from the breath of ruminant animals. This delivers reliable estimates…
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Improving pest management to expand adoption of intercropping alfalfa and corn for Wisconsin dairies
Establishing alfalfa by interseeding into a high-yielding corn silage companion crop can increase yields and profitability of forage production on dairy farms. Additionally, this practice reduces the risk of nutrient…
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Improved solubility of milk protein concentrate and micellar casein concentrate by novel diafiltration approach
Milk protein concentrate (MPC) and micellar casein concentrate (MCC) powders are increasingly popular dairy products due to their ability to enrich the protein in native milk and other food and…
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Land and water resource resilience: Key metrics of water quality and soil health
Busch’s project will update some of the surface-water runoff and soil health monitoring equipment at Pioneer Farm at UW–Platteville. These updates address farmer-led watershed group requests for better data collection…
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Analytical balance for in-house production of standards for equipment calibration
PI: Jill Coleman Wasik Coleman Wasik is an associate professor in the Department of Plant and Earth Science at UW–River Falls. Her research interests include how human activity impacts the…
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Large capacity muffle furnace and related equipment
PI: Jill Coleman Wasik Coleman Wasik is an associate professor in the Department of Plant and Earth Science at UW–River Falls. Her research interests include how human activity impacts the…