“The quality of water in Wisconsin is excellent. This whole exercise is about that,” said soils professor Bill Bland as he made his way to […]

In a study that promises to fill in the fine details of the plant world’s blueprint for surviving drought, a team of Wisconsin researchers has […]

The Iraq War has taken a greater toll on the nation’s non-metropolitan areas because troops from rural areas experience higher rates of death in the […]

To dine with Jeri Barak is to take a lesson in applied food safety. Barak, an assistant professor of plant pathology, begins by sorting through […]

Harmful algal blooms, once considered mainly a problem in salt water, have been appearing with increasing severity in the Madison lakes, and a team of […]

When you buy a cup of coffee that has been certified as Fair Trade, Organic or another “socially responsible” label, do you know what you […]

Former sharecropper was an adept administrator who laid the groundwork for the college’s prominence in basic research

The slump in dairy farm revenues knows no borders. That was clear from the data presented at the annual International Farm Comparison Dairy Network conference held in Kiel, Germany in early June, says agricultural economist Ed Jesse, one of three U.S. representatives at the event.

Wisconsin’s cranberry growers have made significant gains in the adoption of sustainable management practices over the past two decades, a new University of Wisconsin-Madison survey indicates.