When it comes to onions, most of us want it both ways-we want to have our onion and eat it, too. We want the health benefits that onions provide without the pungency, which can cause halitosis, heartburn and hyperactive tear ducts. University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher Michael Havey and his colleagues in Argentina and Turkey are interested in developing a sweet, less pungent onion that does a body good.

By installing headlocks in four-row freestall barns, farmers can reduce the risk to workers and increase their profits by as much as $43 per cow each year, say University of Wisconsin-Madison farm safety experts.

The College of Agricultural and Life Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison invites prospective students, including high school juniors and seniors, and their parents to preview what the Farm and Industry Short Course has to offer.

“I’ll Fly Away” may be the theme song of some insect species exposed to elevated levels of ozone, according to groundbreaking research by Edward Mondor and his colleagues in the entomology department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. They are researching the effects of the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide and ozone on insect behavior and physiology.

In recent months consumers have become all too familiar with news of oil costs spiking, and most experts agree that higher prices at the pump are likely here to stay. As the demand for alternative forms of energy grows,

The Crave brothers of Waterloo, Lawrie Kull of Stillwater, Minn., Robert Rennebohm of Madison, and Robert Williams of Pardeeville will receive Honorary Recognition awards Oct. 27 from the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The awards will be presented at a banquet in the Memorial Union on the UW-Madison campus.

The Seventh Annual Farmer Cooperatives Conference, held Nov. 1-2 in Kansas City, Mo., will highlight the innovative approaches adopted by cooperatives nationwide. Cooperatives are being created in new sectors, established cooperatives are modifying their capital structures, and new state laws allow unprecedented prospects for the creation of innovative cooperative businesses. With many of our cooperatives at the forefront of agribusiness innovation,

The 2004 Midwest Dairy Herd Health Conference will be Nov. 10-11, 2004, at the Plaza Hotel & Suites in Eau Claire, Wis.

To most of us, ice cream is merely delicious. But to a food engineering professor like the College’s Rich Hartel, who has studied the creamy […]

Wisconsin’s dairy industry is in the midst of major restructuring, brought on by changes in national and international competition, new federal marketing and pricing programs, and challenges of mature production and processing infrastructures. If the state’s dairy industry is to prosper and expand, it must find new ways to produce milk at prices competitive with other regions of the country and the world, and do that while protecting environmental quality and enhancing agriculture’s natural-resource base.