The humble potato requires a lot of coddling of its seed stock compared to the seeds of other food plants.  Amy Charkowski leads the oldest […]

Look for new faces when you visit the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Agricultural Research Stations at Hancock, Marshfield, West Madison and Lancaster and at the U.S. […]

Three-dozen cheesemongers from Whole Foods Markets came to Babcock Hall on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus June 25–28 for a four-day, hands-on introduction to the art and […]

Amy Stanton joined CALS and UW-Extension in 2012 as a dairy science professor with particular expertise in animal well-being. Prior to joining CALS she was […]

People and bees have a long shared history. Honeybees, natives of Europe, were carried to the United States by early settlers to provide honey and […]

The nation’s dairy cows are moving closer together. Cows and milk production have shifted north and west, farther from cities, to converge in what economist […]

When Jeff Sindelar talks about the ingredients he’s working with, you’d think he was making juice. Not quite. He’s adding things like cranberry concentrate, cherry […]

Advances in biotechnology such as DNA sequencing have helped speed the pace of plant breeding in many food crops, but applying these tools to the […]

Rhona Applebaum is vice president and chief scientific and regulatory officer at The Coca-Cola Company, where she leads global scientific and regulatory affairs. “We’re responsible […]

This video, which played on the Big Ten Network in early June, describes an innovative program to move surplus vegetables that were being left to […]