Warehoused cheese can help to lessen the summer electricity crunch in Wisconsin, a study at the UW-Madison’s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences has shown.

Robotic milkers could someday free Wisconsin dairy farmers from the tyranny of the milking schedule. However, for the short term, the machines will be a risky investment, according to Doug Reinemann, a milking systems researcher at the UW-Madison’s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.

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.

University of Wisconsin-Madison animal scientist Mark Cook is finding ways producers can raise chickens economically with fewer antibiotics. “I believe that our new tools and strategies will increase both animal and human health,” he says.

Farm numbers, farm acreage and most livestock production in Wisconsin declined between 1987 and 1997, while crop production, particularly soybeans, increased considerably during that time, according to an analysis of Census of Agriculture data by a rural sociologist at UW-Madison’s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.

Use of recombinant bovine somatotropin in Wisconsin more than doubled between 1995 and 1999. About 15 percent of the dairy cows in Wisconsin are now treated with rBST, and about 15 percent of the state’s dairy farms have adopted the technology, according to researchers at the UW-Madison’s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.

The application deadline for Interim Farm and Industry Short Courses at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has been extended to Dec. 31. The Interim Short Courses […]

A team of dairy cattle judges from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences placed first in Guernseys and ninth overall at the North American International Livestock Exposition Intercollegiate Dairy Cattle Judging Contest, held at Louisville, Ky.

The Columbia County 4-H dairy cattle judging team placed fourth overall out of 23 teams at the National 4-H Dairy Cattle Judging Contest, held Sept. 28 during World Dairy Expo at Madison, WI.

The Jefferson County 4-H dairy cattle judging team placed second overall out of 14 teams at the Pennsylvania All-American Invitational 4-H Youth Dairy Cattle Judging Contest, Sept. 20 at Harrisburg, Pa.