Applications are now being accepted for the 2008 Badger Dairy Camp, June 15-17 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The Badger Dairy Camp, a cooperative effort of UW-Extension, the UW-Madison Department of Dairy Science, and the Badger Dairy Club, helps young people aged 12-18 develop self-confidence, sportsmanship and teamwork skills.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison judging team finished first overall and first in oral reasons at the Southwestern Intercollegiate Dairy Cattle Judging Contest held at the 2008 Fort Worth Stock Show Jan. 13 in Fort Worth, Texas.

Richland County’s Senior and Junior dairy bowl teams topped the State 4-H Dairy Quiz Bowl Contest Jan. 26 at Portage High School. Their senior division team will represent Wisconsin this November at the national contest in Louisville, Ky. Jefferson County’s team earned top honors in the mixed division.

In an effort to expand dietary options for individuals with a rare genetic condition known as phenylketonuria, a team of UW-Madison scientists is assessing a unique protein found only in whey, the liquid byproduct of cheese-making, that appears to be safe for this group to eat.

When biochemist Karl Paul Link examined a sample of bad forage, he discovered what would become one of the world’s best-known blood-thinning drugs

This spring, Biological Systems Engineering (BSE) professor Xuejun Pan is teaching the first course on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus that provides a close-up view of the entire biorefining lifecycle.

Prospective students have until Feb. 14 to apply for the Batch Freezer Workshop on Feb. 21-23, sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Food […]

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