Wisconsin continues to be a national leader in organic food production, despite the fact that certified organic farms, acreage and production represent only a small […]

A 4-H team from Wood County won the Wisconsin 4-H Dairy Quiz Bowl Contest and will represent the state at the national competition in Kentucky.

Writing today in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a University of Wisconsin-Madison bacteriologist reveals that mispaired nucleotides in transfer RNA actually make the molecule more adroit, enhancing its ability to build proteins.

One of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s two teams placed first in oral reasons and second overall in the Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show Intercollegiate Dairy Cattle Judging Contest held January 15, 2006 in Fort Worth, Tx.

All-America Selections has chosen the College’s West Madison Agricultural Research Station as the winner of the 2005 AAS Display Garden Exemplary Education Award.

Private woodland owners provide the majority of timber harvested in Wisconsin and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, and most owners choose to selectively cut, rather than clearcut, their woodlands, according to a study by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Michigan State University.

Ever since penicillin, a byproduct of a fungal mold, was discovered in 1929, scientists have scrutinized fungi for other breakthrough drugs. As reported today in The Journal of Chemistry and Biology, a team led by a University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher has developed a new method that may speed the ongoing quest for medically useful compounds in fungi.

Ants that tend and harvest gardens of fungus have a secret weapon against the parasites that invade their crops: antibiotic-producing bacteria that the insects harbor on their bodies.

In 2001, 2003 and 2005, the University of Wisconsin-Madison Product Development Team took first place at the Institute of Food Technologists’ annual Product Development Competition by creating exceptionally tasty, nutritious and feasible new food items with the potential to fly off grocery store shelves.

Farmers who are considering starting or modifying poultry operations have a new resource available. Poultry Your Way is a free, 124-page book that profiles a variety of poultry systems suitable for the Upper Midwest.