When the soybean aphid first appeared in the United States in 2000, Wisconsin farmers saw what it could do. Where infestations were severe, the aphids and the viruses they transmit cut soybean yields by 10 to 15 percent.

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.

Farmers in Wisconsin may soon have a powerful new tool to help them make decisions about fertilizer that increase their yields and control runoff, thanks to University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers who are studying how to maximize information from agricultural modeling systems.

UW-Extension county faculty and crop advisors have a new tool to help dairy producers decide about manure management and address potential environmental effects of herd expansion, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences researchers announced on Wednesday.

What goes in must come out, and in the case of phosphorus, too much has been going into cows and coming out on farmlands. New state and federal rules aimed at curbing runoff pollution are going to affect many Wisconsin farms.

University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists have identified bacteria that increased corn yields by 5 percent to 10 percent in preliminary field trials in five Midwestern states.

People who care about wildlife and the environment will have a new way to act on their concern in 2002. They can buy “Healthy Grown” potatoes.

The interim Short Course “Managing Hispanic Employees in your Dairy” will meet for four days, Monday Jan. 14 to Thursday, Jan. 17, 2002. The new registration deadline is Jan. 8, 2002. (The course was originally scheduled for five days.)

Wisconsin soybean growers whose yields were less than they expected this fall may have had problems with the soybean cyst nematode. The only way to know if the nematode is limiting yields is to run a soil test.

Despite the hard work, long hours and stresses associated with farming, most women on Wisconsin dairy farms were positive about their quality of life, according to a new University of Wisconsin-Madison study published in late November.