The kura clover pastures at the Arlington Agricultural Research station have entered their fourth growing season. The pastures are grazed by dairy cows, and on Wednesday, June 26 they’ll be the focus of a Pasture Day at the station.

Anyone who shops the Dane County Farmers’ Market knows that locally grown food is healthy eating at its best. But did you know that there are many other opportunities to buy fresh, tasty produce, meat, cheese, and other locally grown food directly from farmers and businesses?

A team of University of Wisconsin-Madison biologists and computer scientists has received nearly $5 million to train students to handle the increasingly complex problems that researchers in biology and medicine will face.

Marion Kalb, national Farm-to-School program director with the Community Food Security Coalition, will speak in Madison about linking farmers with schools.

University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers, working with an Illinois city and a Milwaukee County Zoo curator, hope to surgically scale down an urban deer herd that has outgrown its welcome. Sterilizing does should eventually, and non-lethally, pare deer numbers in the Highland Park herd, according to Nancy Mathews, a wildlife ecologist at the UW-Madison’s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.

Women who effectively use health information on the Internet appear to make ongoing use of varied resources there, according to University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers. The scientists’ findings are based on their evaluation of an experimental Internet site they created for women with breast cancer.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison will implement changes to the physical environment and management practices of the UW Stock Pavilion to help protect the health of all users and visitors.

Registration is now open for a four-day fishing course designed for people who want to gain a greater appreciation of aquatic resources around them, and improve their ability to catch fish.

Taxing and spending by Wisconsin counties and municipalities are not so high that they are putting the brakes on local economic growth, according to a University of Wisconsin-Madison study.

The freeze on freshman admissions to the University of Wisconsin system does not affect admissions to the Farm and Industry Short Course at the UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, according to Short Course director Rick Daluge.