As of 2003, Wisconsin Farm Progress Days, the state’s largest outdoor agricultural show, will change its name to Wisconsin Farm Technology Days. The 2003 show will take place in Waupaca County.

University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists have discovered that an obscure antibiotic makes a widely used biological pesticide more deadly to gypsy moth caterpillars.

Were your soybean yields low last year? Was the yield low in a field where you didn’t expect it? The problem could be the soybean cyst nematode, a pest that has now been reported from 25 Wisconsin counties.

The University of Wisconsin-based Consortium for Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (CSARE) has joined the National Coalition for Food and Agriculture Research (C-FAR). The organizations will work together to attempt to double federal funding of food, agricultural, and natural resources research and education programs over the next five years.

Claron Burnett, emeritus professor of agricultural journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, died Saturday, April 21 at a hospice center in Mobile, Ala. He was 82 years old.

A short stroll along Linden Drive and down Henry Mall takes visitors past the sites of some of the biggest scientific achievements of the past century. Those locations are no longer anonymous, thanks to a series of 19 plaques that highlights accomplishments at the UW-Madison”s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.

Seven Farm and Industry Short Course students have been recognized by the Wisconsin Agricultural and Life Sciences Alumni Association for outstanding academics.

The Wisconsin Agricultural and Life Sciences Alumni Association presented Activity and Leadership Awards to five students who graduated from the Farm and Industry Short Course program in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

It’s important to keep antibiotic residues out of milk, and few dairy producers think they will ever have a problem on their farms. But producers whose herds’ somatic cell counts are high have reason to be concerned, according to a University of Wisconsin-Madison dairy scientist.

With fertilizer and energy prices high this year, Wisconsin growers may plant more soybeans and less corn. But state farmers, who planted 1.5 million acres of beans last year, face new pests that could cost them more than $50 per acre.