Considering the average age of a Wisconsin farmer is upwards of 56 years old and the state has been losing around 500 dairy farms per year in recent […]

You might expect that the most important break- through in feeding dairy cattle in years would rate a snazzy name. Instead, you get “total tract neutral […]

See accompanying slideshow by Jeff Miller Last year, a family of foxes — complete with roly-poly kits — took up residence on the University of […]

2014 was a year of celebrations for CALS. The college feted its 125th anniversary many times, in many ways and in many places throughout the […]

Each year, the planet balances its budget. The carbon dioxide absorbed by plants in the spring and summer as they convert solar energy into food […]

She woke up in her hospital room feeling nothing short of desperation. Katie Brenner remembered giving birth to a tiny daughter hours earlier but the […]

His favorite insect is one he has actually never seen alive in the wild. It lives on snowfields and glaciers in the American West, aptly […]

A new study led by CALS nutritional scientist Sherry Tanumihardjo has established that ‘orange’ vitamin A maize increases vitamin A storage in the body. This maize has […]

Food and agricultural scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (CALS) will have a big and tasty presence at this […]

The Guernsey calves were twins, but they had different fathers — the proper Guernsey and a Hereford that had jumped the fence. That much Ray […]