Larry Satter, a dairy nutritionist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the USDA Dairy Forage Research Center, has received the 1999 Award of Honor from the American Dairy Science Association. The award, which is the highest honor given by the ADSA, recognized Satter’s exceptional and long-term contributions to the group.

A team of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers will tackle some of the challenges facing the alternative red-meat industry in the upper Midwest. The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection, in collaboration with the Meat Science Laboratory at the UW-Madison’s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, has received a grant to study ways to improve marketing and processing in this rapidly growing industry.

University of Wisconsin-Extension/Madison specialists are helping schools adapt a strategy farmers use to control weeds and bugs with a minimal amount of chemicals.

With a lot of last year’s alfalfa crop still in storage and production high all across the US this summer, farmers may want to consider skipping a cutting this summer.

When Paul Voss tells you, “The day is punctuated by phone calls and e-mails,” you might respond, “So is mine.”

High levels of zinc in nursery pig diets can affect bone growth and development, a University of Wisconsin-Madison study has shown.

Food science students have earned a finalist spot in a national competition by inventing a healthy taste treat,

Farmers looking for both high yield and high quality forage during the year they establish legumes might consider annual ryegrass or festulolium as companion crops, according to a University of Wisconsin Madison study in central and northwestern Wisconsin.

As Congress considers enlarging interstate dairy compacts, a new study by three University of Wisconsin-Madison agricultural economists labeled the compacts “bad public policy.”

With some forethought and routine maintenance, bluebirds and birdies can find common ground on Wisconsin’s golf courses. The proof is nesting on a “bluebird trail” at the UW-Madison’s University Ridge golf course.