The $10 million Dairy Coordinated Agriculture Project has concluded, offering farmers concrete ideas for reducing emissions by 25%. AAE Faculty Affiliate Mark Stephenson participated in the project, specifically looking at alternative manure management practices. An …
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Struggling Midwestern Farmers
Suffering from the impacts of flooding, low commodity prices, and trade wars, Midwestern farmers are finding it increasingly difficult to survive. Read what AAE Professor Paul Mitchell and others have to say about their currently …
MSPO Gets NABE Business Economist Certification
Students can now earn The National Association for Business Economics (NABE) Certified Business Economist Certification (CBE®) in conjunction with AAE’s MSPO Degree. NABE is the premier professional association for business economists and those who use …
AAE Ph.D. student inducted into Bouchet Society
AAE doctoral candidate Esteban Quiñones was recently inducted into the UW–Madison Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Honor Society. The Bouchet society “provides scholars with a network of peers who exemplify character, leadership, scholarship, service, and advocacy for …
The potential cost of Foxconn for the fishing industry
As construction of the Foxconn plant in Manitowoc gets underway, environmental researchers look at what pollution could do to the area’s air, water and fishing resources. AAE Professor Dan Phaneuf, along with graduate student Jennifer …
Livestock Gross Margin Insurance Program for Dairy Webinar
The funding limitation imposed on the Livestock Gross Margin for Dairy Cattle (LGM-Dairy) insurance program was eliminated via last month’s Federal budget agreement. In addition, dairy farm operators are now able to opt out of …
AAE presents the Status of Wisconsin Agriculture 2018
Status of Wisconsin Agriculture, the longstanding agricultural situation and outlook report produced by the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences and UW-Extension/Cooperative Extension is back in its second year, after a …
AAE Graduate Programs get STEM Designation
We are pleased to announce that as of December 2017, all graduate degrees from the Agricultural and Applied Economics Department at UW-Madison have a Federal STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) designation. This is possible …
UW Center for Cooperatives welcomes new Director
Courtney Berner has been named Executive Director of the University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives, and will succeed Anne Reynolds, the current Executive Director, on January 8, 2018. Reynolds is retiring her post after twenty-two …
REDA Alumni named to the AESP Wisconsin Board
UW-Madison’s Resource and Energy Demand Analysis (REDA) master’s program is delighted that not one, but two REDA alumni have been elected to the board of the Wisconsin Chapter of the Association of Energy Service Professionals …