It’s late May, weeks before southern Wisconsin would be locked into a scorching drought, and Kirk Leach BS’78 is worrying about the weather. The grass […]

Despite the challenges brought on by prolonged drought and record-breaking heat, Wisconsin farmers earned $3 billion in net farm income in 2012, the second highest […]

Trees and the insects that eat them wage constant war. Insects burrow and munch; trees deploy lethal and disruptive defenses in the form of chemicals. […]

Twenty-five thousand years, our Paleolithic ancestors got plenty of sun. Scantily draped in animal hides, they spent their days roaming outdoors, hunting and gathering food. […]

When the Wisconsin gun deer season starts Saturday, Nov. 17, some hunters will be wondering about the impacts of the growing wolf population, and the […]

Last fall I spent an afternoon near Baraboo sitting in a tree stand across from a woman with a rifle. Perched in another crook was […]

Wisconsin logging firms are following the same trend as many other industries: Fewer, larger, and more mechanized. That’s according to a survey of owners of […]

A lot of parents want their kids’ schools to serve more fresh and local food for lunch, and schools would like to oblige, but that’s […]

Scientists have identified three neighboring genes that make soybeans resistant to the most damaging disease of soybean. The genes exist side-by-side on a stretch of […]

As the University of Wisconsin-Madison competes with the world’s top universities for talent and expertise, it is getting more help from women, who in 2011 […]