In the King Hall greenhouse on the UW campus, Rebecca Smith stands amid a potted jungle of sorghum, clipping stalk segments into a plastic bin to be […]

This article was originally shared by UW–Madison News on Dec. 3, 2025. For an enhanced multi-media experience, read this story at https://news.wisc.edu/smart-farming/. If you closed […]

Almost 20 years ago, Natalia de Leon ’00, ’02 and Shawn Kaeppler BS’87, professors in the Department of Plant and Agroecosystem Sciences, set out to bring a crop back […]

“How does your garden grow?” It’s a question posed often enough that it even appears in a classic nursery rhyme. When Angela Johnson, a local artist […]

Members of the Wisconsin livestock and meat industries are invited to help celebrate the induction of two individuals with outstanding lifetime contributions to the Wisconsin […]

Rodrigo Werle wonders if anybody is ever really happy to see him. He is, after all, a weed scientist. He specializes in some of the nastiest, […]

For Ojibwe people, wild rice—manoomin—is far more than a food source. It is a sacred relative, central to culture, identity, and community well‑being. Yet over […]

When undergraduate Devin Digman bought a 90s-era Kawasaki motorcycle earlier this year, he didn’t expect its purple and turquoise color scheme to bleed into other […]

Grain farmers and industry professionals interested in learning more about organic management practices and the organic transition process can find valuable information at the upcoming […]

If you closed your eyes — and maybe if David Bartling wasn’t trying to shout over the roar of harvesting machinery — you might guess […]