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.

The Hancock Agricultural Research Station will hold its 16th annual Fruits, Flowers and Vegetables Twilight Tour on Tuesday, August 4. The event begins at 4 p.m. and goes until the twilight fades away.

Nestled within the twisting fungus gardens of leaf-cutter ants exists a complex symbiotic web that has evolved over millions of years. Now, with the help of a major genomic sequencing grant from Roche Applied Science, scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will be able to analyze these interactions at the molecular scale.

“Oral Reasons for the 2008 Hoard’s Dairyman Cow Judging Contest” is an