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New Foundational Text

AAE Professor Dan Phaneuf and co-author Till Requate wrote a modern, comprehensive environmental economics textbook.

Understanding Bioenergy Potential

What is the viability and sustainability of cellulosic bioenergy crops in the US? New research by AAE faculty Brad Barham and colleagues explores the answer to this question.

AAE News

  • 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 …

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