More than 100 campers from three states attended the seventh annual Badger Dairy Camp held on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus June 9 to June 11.

City and country come together in late June to support an important cause – the next generation of Wisconsin dairy farmers – at a fun, food-centered benefit dubbed

A regular hoe handle is about 54 to 57 inches long, and forces workers to bend to reach the ground. This strains the back, neck, shoulders and arms. The long-handled diamond hoe’s handle is nearly 6 feet long. Tests done by the University of Wisconsin’s Healthy Farmers, Healthy Profits Project found a worker using a diamond hoe was more upright, leaning forward by only eight degrees compared with fifteen degrees of forward lean when using a standard-length hoe.

“We love our milking stool!” states Tim Powers of Laws Nursery in Hastings, Minn. This past summer, Powers and his employees tried out a one-legged […]

For nursery growers who use tractors and wagons to move plants, one-person hitching systems can dramatically save time and reduce the risk of serious injury. Without having to climb down off the tractor, you can back up to a wagon until the coupling device locks the wagon in place. Unhitching is simply done by pulling a release cable. With this system no second person is required to guide or latch the hitch.

The key to better Cheddar may lie in undissolved calcium salts, according to a report by University of Wisconsin-Madison cheese scientists published recently in the International Dairy Journal.

A bicycle ride to raise awareness about the crucial need to help Wisconsin”s next generation of dairy farmers get started will take place Friday, June 24 to Monday, June 27. The second annual Ride to Farm will begin just east of Eau Claire and finish at the opening of the annual Wisconsin Association of Agricultural Educators Conference, Marriott Madison West Hotel, Middleton, on Monday morning.

Spring rains may make flowers–and crops–grow, but when stormwater runs off fields it can carry topsoil, chemicals and nutrients such as phosphorus into rivers and streams. This spring, a University of Wisconsin-Madison scientist and his team will begin tests to understand the mechanisms of erosion by tracking sediment movement as well as the flow of water over fields.

Patrick Krysan (Horticulture/Genome Center of Wisconsin) has received a Career Award from the National Science Foundation. The award, $700,000 over five years, will fund Krysan’s research efforts.

Edward J. Schantz, biochemist and emeritus professor of food microbiology and toxicology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, died April 28, 2005 in Madison. He was 96 years old.