The Midwest School for Beginning Apple Growers, a three-day workshop for people wanting to start an orchard business, will be offered February 5-7, 2010 on the UW-Madison campus.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison Farm and Industry Short Course program will offer six courses – each a week or less in length – during the first half of January.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Farm and Industry Short Course invites prospective students and their parents to campus on Dec. 2-3, 2009 to preview what the program has to offer.

An article in Science documents a previously unknown symbiosis between ants and bacteria and provides insights into how leaf-cutter ants have dome to dominate the tropics.

This week, scientists are revealing the genetic instructions inside corn, one of the big three cereal crops. Corn, or maize, has one of the most complex sequences of DNA ever analyzed, says University of Wisconsin-Madison genomicist David Schwartz, who was one of more than 100 authors in the article in the journal Science.

Fresh market vegetable growers can learn how to extend their marketing season with storage crops at a workshop being offered on Dec. 4 in Hudson and Dec. 11 in Madison.

The Wisconsin School for Beginning Market Growers, a three-day workshop for people wanting to start a fresh market vegetable farm, will be offered January 15-17 on the UW-Madison campus.

A new beef cattle extension specialist has joined the faculty of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Animal Sciences.

UW-Madison’s Team White placed second overall among the 13 national and regional dairy judging teams that competed in the annual Accelerated Genetics Dairy Cattle Judging Contes.

A team of judges from the UW-Madison Dairy Cattle Judging Team competed at the 41st Annual All-American Collegiate Judging Contest on September 21, 2009 in […]