The UW-Madison Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems has been named as lead agency in a six-state area for a new national program to encourage schools to serve more locally grown food.

Operators of large confinement dairy farms and those who employ management intensive grazing systems express equal satisfaction with the quality of their lives. And they are more satisfied than those who operate smaller confinement farms or less intensive grazing operations, according to a survey of 1,300 Wisconsin dairy farmers

When the University of Wisconsin football Badgers take the field this fall, they will have a secret weapon behind them: Wisconsin’s dairy cows. Sure, they might not run very well or catch a football, but cows supply one of the key ingredients in a sports recovery drink that the Badgers use to bounce back from strenuous workouts and practices.

Prospective students have until Nov. 23 to apply for the Ice Cream Makers Short Course on Dec. 5-7, sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department […]

Since it was established in 1993, the Wisconsin Meat Industry Hall of Fame has served as a portal to the history of the state”s meat […]

Crunching the dairy numbers is a lot simpler than it used to be. One of the most comprehensive collections of dairy marketing information available is now online at http://future.aae.wisc.edu.

At any given spot in Wisconsin, chances are that you’re not far from a lake or a farm, or both – but the combination is not always a harmonious one. The future of both may hinge on proper management of an essential element: phosphorus.

Consumers can taste a difference in cheese made from the milk of cows that graze on pasture, and they like what they taste, according to a study by two University of Wisconsin-Madison professors.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Arlington Agricultural Research Station will hold its first field day devoted to to organic agricultural production on August 30 from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m

The 2007 agronomy/soils field day is billed as “tours and exhibits of current crops and soils research,” and there will be plenty of both. But […]