The kura clover pastures at the Arlington Agricultural Research station have entered their fourth growing season. The pastures are grazed by dairy cows, and on Wednesday, June 26 they’ll be the focus of a Pasture Day at the station.

This year’s Wisconsin Agricultural & Life Sciences Alumni Association picnic will be held at the farm of Melissa Goldale Sprecher (B.S. 1993) and Marty Sprecher, about a mile and a half from tent city at Farm Progress Days.

As trees leafed out this spring, an international group of researchers headed to northern Wisconsin. There a unique, long-term study is revealing how air pollution […]

A new process that instantly tenderizes boneless meat could help packing houses produce consistently tender, moist cuts of beef, according to a University of Wisconsin-Madison meat scientist.

Anyone who shops the Dane County Farmers’ Market knows that locally grown food is healthy eating at its best. But did you know that there are many other opportunities to buy fresh, tasty produce, meat, cheese, and other locally grown food directly from farmers and businesses?

As food travels from farms to food processors to grocers and finally to your table, food safety is a constant concern. From farm fields to your kitchen, food is vulnerable to contamination by microscopic organisms that cause illness.

Marion Kalb, national Farm-to-School program director with the Community Food Security Coalition, will speak in Madison about linking farmers with schools.

A new disease threatens Wisconsin’s position as the nation’s leading snap bean producer and has University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers scrambling for answers.

Driving machinery over fields can significantly reduce yields of alfalfa, one of the state’s most important crops, according to a University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher. A preliminary study at the Arlington Agricultural Research Station found that wheel traffic cut alfalfa yields by up to 70 percent for a single cutting, and the average was 30 percent, according to Dan Undersander, an extension forage specialist with the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.

University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers, working with an Illinois city and a Milwaukee County Zoo curator, hope to surgically scale down an urban deer herd that has outgrown its welcome. Sterilizing does should eventually, and non-lethally, pare deer numbers in the Highland Park herd, according to Nancy Mathews, a wildlife ecologist at the UW-Madison’s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.