Over the past eight years, Milo Wiltbank has helped hundreds of livestock producers improve reproductive management on their farms. His efforts have earned him the J. S. Donald Excellence in Teaching Award for Farm and Industry Short Course for 1999.

Dairy judging enthusiasts ages 12 to 19 have a chance to solidify their dairy fundamentals and get a jump on the upcoming judging and showing season at Badger Dairy Camp, June 10 to June 12 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Custom-tailored forage digestibility predictions may soon replace “one-size-fits-all” forage analysis in the upper Midwest. Digestion kinetics adjusts digestibility predictions based on a cow’s forage intake, and more accurately measures the energy value of forages for cows at various intake levels, according to Dave Combs, a dairy nutritionist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences. Digestion kinetics formulas, coupled with near-infrared reflectance spectroscopy, should help dairy farmers to fine-tune ration formulations and forage-purchasing decisions.

Auntie Em did the laundry and the cooking, and was referred to as a “farm wife.” But farm women today bristle at that term. Now farm women consider themselves farmers, too. And well they should: They manage and care for calves, milk and feed the cows, take charge of farm finances, and do artificial insemination. They also have a much larger role in decision-making than economists give them credit for. Until agricultural economist Lydia Zepeda did her research, all the economic models of technology adoption assumed that farms had one decision-maker, typically the male head of the household.

Margaret R. Dentine, a dairy cattle geneticist, has been named associate dean for research and executive director of the Wisconsin Agricultural Experiment Station at the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.

Biochemist Paul W. Ludden has been named executive associate dean of the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Tom Cox, Yong Zhu and Jean-Paul Chavas of the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics have recently released the final report to a three-year study looking at the how the GATT URA will affect the U.S. and world dairy sectors.

Thirty-seven years of data collected from a plot at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Arlington agricultural research station is yielding alarming results: acidification from excess fertilizer is wearing out the soil.

Located in the UW-Madison”s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, the Pesticide Use and Risk Reduction Project addresses the impacts of the U.S. Food Quality […]

Margaret Krome of the Michael Fields Agricultural Institute will be honored Tuesday, March 16 for applying the