The University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Animal Sciences invites high school students and transfer students interested in exploring an education in animal sciences to an open house on Tuesday, Dec. 1 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. with a 9:30 a.m. registration. Deadline to register is November 23.

Milk markets may look a bit bleak this year, but that doesn’t seem to have dampened interest in the Wisconsin for Beginning Dairy and Livestock Farmers, says Dick Cates, the program’s director. The class will be offered at several new locations around the state this year.

On Oct. 20 the UW-Madison’s Spooner Agricultural Research Station will celebrate its 100th birthday and commemorate a milestone in the history of Wisconsin agriculture.

A recent outbreak of illness tied to the consumption of raw (unpasteurized) milk sickened at least 35 people in Wisconsin, most of them children and teens. This has prompted food safety specialists with the University of Wisconsin-Extension to urge consumers to avoid consuming raw milk.

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.

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