A regular hoe handle is about 54 to 57 inches long, and forces workers to bend to reach the ground. This strains the back, neck, shoulders and arms. The long-handled diamond hoe’s handle is nearly 6 feet long. Tests done by the University of Wisconsin’s Healthy Farmers, Healthy Profits Project found a worker using a diamond hoe was more upright, leaning forward by only eight degrees compared with fifteen degrees of forward lean when using a standard-length hoe.

“We love our milking stool!” states Tim Powers of Laws Nursery in Hastings, Minn. This past summer, Powers and his employees tried out a one-legged […]

For nursery growers who use tractors and wagons to move plants, one-person hitching systems can dramatically save time and reduce the risk of serious injury. Without having to climb down off the tractor, you can back up to a wagon until the coupling device locks the wagon in place. Unhitching is simply done by pulling a release cable. With this system no second person is required to guide or latch the hitch.

The key to better Cheddar may lie in undissolved calcium salts, according to a report by University of Wisconsin-Madison cheese scientists published recently in the International Dairy Journal.

Every May, about the time the lilacs bloom, a group of 40 faculty and staff from the University of Wisconsin-Madison turn in their last grades, check their email one more time and embark on a five-day experience called the Wisconsin Idea Seminar.

A bicycle ride to raise awareness about the crucial need to help Wisconsin”s next generation of dairy farmers get started will take place Friday, June 24 to Monday, June 27. The second annual Ride to Farm will begin just east of Eau Claire and finish at the opening of the annual Wisconsin Association of Agricultural Educators Conference, Marriott Madison West Hotel, Middleton, on Monday morning.

Results from the State FFA Career Development Event held April 29 on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus are available online.

Over three weeks this summer, a building made of straw bales and stucco will rise from the wind-swept Montana plains–an undertaking that is equally an exercise in green construction, an opportunity to assist with a much-needed early childhood learning center on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation, and cultural partnership and immersion experience for undergraduate students.

As part of a capstone experience for her undergraduate degree, Katie Selin created a plan for environmentally friendly student housing and community space at the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwa Community College.

Spring rains may make flowers–and crops–grow, but when stormwater runs off fields it can carry topsoil, chemicals and nutrients such as phosphorus into rivers and streams. This spring, a University of Wisconsin-Madison scientist and his team will begin tests to understand the mechanisms of erosion by tracking sediment movement as well as the flow of water over fields.