On Oct. 20 the UW-Madison’s Spooner Agricultural Research Station will celebrate its 100th birthday and commemorate a milestone in the history of Wisconsin agriculture.

A recent outbreak of illness tied to the consumption of raw (unpasteurized) milk sickened at least 35 people in Wisconsin, most of them children and teens. This has prompted food safety specialists with the University of Wisconsin-Extension to urge consumers to avoid consuming raw milk.

Although almost two-thirds of Wisconsinites support the use and production of biofuels, less than half think the government should subsidize their development, according to a new study by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers.

CALS engineering students’ senior design project was an attachment that turns a skid loader into a mobile crane with a 40-foot reach

Historically, crop rotation hasIn the past, crop rotation helped keep the western corn rootworm in check in Wisconsin. But that’s no longer the case since a unique strain of western corn rootworm figured out how to buck the system.

Scientists are forecasting significantly warmer winters, altered patterns of precipitation and more severe weather events for the Badger state.

Last year CALS partnered with the Athletic Department on a carbon-neutral football game. This year CALS faculty and staff are helping extend the effort to the entire football season.

When hot pavement raises the temperature of stormwater runoff, trout and other coldwater species are put at risk. CALS researchers are refining tools that can help developers predict and mitigate the problem.

On Oct. 15 the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences will present its Honorary Recognition Award to Debra Crave and Michael Krutza and its Distinguished Service Award to Joachim von Elbe. Hector DeLuca and Richard Scheller will both receive the new Distinguished Alumni Award.

An optical mapping system used by a UW-Madison scientist allowed a research team to map the genome of the pathogen that causes this costly disease and gain insight on its destructive potential