When the University of Wisconsin-Madison decided to hold a ceremony to kick off construction for its new Meat Science Building, officials decided on something a little more appropriate — a ham salting ceremony.
Wixon announced that it has made a five-year commitment to donate $250,000 to the construction of the new University of Wisconsin-Madison Meat Science Laboratory.
A dairy plant addition and a new meat science and muscle biology laboratory are on the drawing board for the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with half the money to build them being raised privately by the dairy and the meat industries, respectively.
