Although almost two-thirds of Wisconsinites support the use and production of biofuels, less than half think the government should subsidize their development, according to a new study by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers.

CALS engineering students’ senior design project was an attachment that turns a skid loader into a mobile crane with a 40-foot reach

Historically, crop rotation hasIn the past, crop rotation helped keep the western corn rootworm in check in Wisconsin. But that’s no longer the case since a unique strain of western corn rootworm figured out how to buck the system.

An optical mapping system used by a UW-Madison scientist allowed a research team to map the genome of the pathogen that causes this costly disease and gain insight on its destructive potential

When CALS alum Joe Glauber was named chief economist in February 2008, his office was issuing some of its most optimistic reports in decades. Now he’s reporting 50 percent drops in exports and forecasting huge drops in net farm income.

If you’re thinking about a career in the landscape industry, you might

ttending the 2009 Agronomy/Soils Field Day at the Arlington Agricultural Research Station gets you a look at the latest in harvesting forage crops for biomass and some advice on how economic distress could affect your taxes, plus updates on a wide variety of crops, soils and pest management research.

If you think of valuable products that come out of a meatpacking plant, the contents of a cow’s rumen probably don’t come to mind. But Lindley Reilly thinks differently. She thinks rumen extracts could yield a low-cost source of protein for livestock and also help solve a vexing environmental problem.

Both crop and livestock research will be on the program at the third annual University of Wisconsin-Madison Organic Field Day on August 26 at the Arlington Agricultural Research Station.

This summer, Doug Soldat is saving for a not-so-rainy day. He’s banking rainwater, up to 8,000 gallons of it, enough to keep the lawn at UW-Madison’s O.J. Noer turfgrass center lush through the driest weeks of summer.