More than 99 percent of all modern potato varieties planted today are the direct descendants of varieties that once grew in the lowlands of south-central Chile. How Chilean germplasm came to dominate the modern potato-which spread worldwide from Europe-has been the subject of a long, contentious debate among scientists.

You need meat, and fast. But where around campus can you find good, fresh steaks? Here’s an option that may surprise you: the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Meat Science and Muscle Biology Laboratory.

The College of Agricultural and Life Sciences at the University of

The two-day Wisconsin School for Cut Flower Growers can help you learn how to start a cut flower business, grow flowers using organic and sustainable production practices, and market cut flowers.

UW-Dairy Science would like you to start dreaming about those warmer spring days and their 2008 Golf Classic scheduled for Wednesday, May 14 at the Bridges Golf Course in Madison.

This fall, 29 freshmen enrolled in the Department of Dairy Science, more than triple its entering class from just three years ago.

A team of judges from the UW-Madison Dairy Cattle Judging Team competed at the 39th Annual All-American Collegiate Judging Contest on September 17, 2007 in […]

A team of youth dairy cattle judges from Pierce County, Wis. competed in the 86th Annual National 4-H Dairy Cattle Judging Contest held Monday, October […]

The UW-Madison Dairy Cattle Judging Team continued a 23-year streak of top-five finishes at the 87th Annual National Collegiate Dairy Cattle Judging Contest, October 1, […]

Dairy cattle judges from 18 national and regional universities competed in the 14th annual Accelerated Genetics Dairy Cattle Judging Contest held Sunday, September 16, 2007 […]