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

Friends of the Wisconsin School for Beginning Dairy and Livestock Farmers will be pedaling for pledges when they wheel out of Dane County’s Lake Farm Park on June 12 for the 6th Annual Ride to Farm.

Recent graduates of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Farm and Industry Short Course (FISC) received WALSAA (Wisconsin Agricultural and Life Sciences Alumni Association) honorary awards during […]

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