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For many students, academic misconduct is only an abstract temptation presented once a semester on the pages of a syllabus. Last year, however, the number of academic misconduct cases reported at UW-Madison spiked by nearly 30 cases.
Every Sunday — after a weekend of campus parties — the UW-Madison student organization Cleaning Up Campus picks up trash on Langdon Street. Each member of the crew usually collects two to three full grocery bags of trash, mostly beer cans.
When asked how he would describe the relationship between the city of Madison and the surrounding farms in a single word, Dane County Food Councilman Carl Chenoweth answered with just one word: “Opportunity.”
There soon may be a new crop accompanying the cows on Wisconsin’s farms: hemp.
The Daily Cardinal asked a student, farmers, an expert and the Wisconsin Secretary of Agriculture what they think is the future of Wisconsin’s agriculture.
It’s a warm and sunny January morning when professor Mike Ballweg enters the room, ready to get to work with more than 40 people waiting for the day’s lesson. His students — a mixture of local farmers and agricultural agents — are arrayed around the tables of the local pub, which has opened early to host the seminar.
Though UW-Madison is well-known for its Babcock milk and ice cream, many students don’t know where their dairy products come from.
Urban agriculture is a very specific term defining a very broad field: agriculture, from gardening to raising livestock, in a city or suburb surrounding an urban space. It is a practice that has spread over time — but it all started in Madison.
From a young age, BobbiJo DeGolyer said she knew she didn’t want to be a farmer.
In a couple of years, students who apply to the agriculture college at UW-Madison may see fewer majors and departments, while students applying to other UW System schools could see new options available to them.
In January, Matt Kronschnabel, who graduated from UW-Madison in 2016, and three friends signed the deed to a four-acre organic farm in Viroqua, Wis. — in a region that saw the nation’s highest rate of farm bankruptcies last year, according to federal court data.
The number of farmers in the U.S. fell just under 3.2 million in 2012, a 4-percent decrease in the industry from five years prior — and only 14 percent of those farms are run by women
Farmers rise with the sun, sometimes as early as 3 to 5 a.m., labor in the fields or work with livestock for the entire day, and end their day around 8 p.m. For farmers with disabilities, however, the manual and mental labor that is their livelihood can become impossible.
Wisconsin has always been filled with farms that vary in function, size, and management. The state's farming heritage is present everywhere, down to its license plates proclaiming Wisconsin "America's Dairyland.”
With midterms fast approaching, Wisconsin is receiving a national spotlight for both intensely vital and competitive elections, as political groups around the state seek to mobilize supporters, influence platforms and, most importantly, fundraise.
The Menominee River winds southeast from Iron Mountain, MI, through densely forested ridgeland all the way to Marinette, where it empties into Lake Michigan’s Green Bay.
Walking up the cement path of Bascom Hill, students may not know they are stepping over remnants of Native American life.
Paul Rykken has a classroom perspective unlike almost anyone else.
With so few Native American students on campus, forming connections with other Native students is key for living on a majority white campus. But imagine if being a part of that community is contingent on whether or not student leaders are able to find you.
Nearly half of all undergraduate Native American women on the UW-Madison campus have experienced sexual assault, according to a 2015 campus survey on the issue.
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