If you are a farmer or local business that wants to attract more customers in the Milwaukee Metropolitan area, then the 2012 Farm Fresh Atlas […]

University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have been selected to lead a national, multi-institution effort to improve the quality of processed potatoes, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s […]

Student volunteers from the F.H. King Student Farm grow and give away local produce at Harvest Handouts on East Campus Mall. The F.H. King Student […]

from Extension News  Many apple varieties grown in Wisconsin ripen in early to mid-October, so orchards around the state are bursting with fruit ready to be […]

UW Badger Football’s inaugural game vs the Nebraska Cornhuskers wasn’t the only battle on Saturday. Babcock Hall Dairy Plant’s own “Berry Alvarez Ice Cream” challenged […]

Is a years-long push on farm safety education having an impact? It’s hard to say, notes Fond Du Lac County UW-Extension agent Mike Rankin, who […]

Along with dairy, can you name other agricultural commodities that contribute to Wisconsin’s $60 billion agricultural industry? If you guessed cranberries, Christmas trees, ginseng, maple […]

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are investigating a multistate outbreak of listeriosis, an illness caused […]

Corn split off from its closest relative teosinte, a wild Mexican grass, about 10,000 years ago thanks to the breeding efforts of early Mexican farmers. […]