High school juniors and seniors, their parents, and other prospective students are invited to visit the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and see if the Farm and Industry Short Course will meet their needs.

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Profitability plays a major role in Wisconsin farmers’ decisions to plant or quit planting genetically modified crops, a University of Wisconsin-Madison study has shown.

Interim Farm and Industry Short Courses will be offered the weeks of Jan. 8-12 and Jan. 16-20 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Douglas D. Sorenson, agricultural editor and former professor of agricultural journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, died Dec. 17 at Oakwood Village health care center in Madison. He was 76 years old.

To paraphrase Mark Twain, reports of the death of the family dairy farm have been greatly exaggerated.

If you fish for sport, you want a trout or bass that puts up a fight. But if you raise fish for the frying pan, you’re better off with fish that are more laid back.

With the soybean harvest near an end, now is the time to think about testing next year’s fields for the soybean cyst nematode.

Did your garden produce more than you could eat or give away last summer? Have you wondered what it would take to turn your vegetable-growing skills into a small business? The Wisconsin School for Beginning Market Gardeners, to be held Jan. 18 to Jan. 20 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, can provide some answers.