CALS is welcoming 58 members of the Wisconsin National Guard Agribusiness Development Team to campus July 25–29 for a 40-hour “Ag 101” training.  The course, […]

1. They cannot leap tall buildings in a single bound. Nor will they flatten your tummy, cleanse your colon, boost your immune system or increase […]

University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists are part of an international consortium that has successfully sequenced and analyzed the potato genome. The consortium’s work, which is described […]

The annual UW Agronomy/Soils Field Day will take place on August 31 at the Arlington Agricultural Research Station. While a full news release about the field […]

CALS staffers in two departments helped create a new web-based tool that helps farmers decide when conditions are right to spread manure on their land, […]

Pixie Dust was magic for a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison food science graduate students in New Orleans last weekend. That’s the name of the […]

What do Americans love more than French fries and potato chips? Not much-but perhaps we love them more than we ought to. Fat and calories […]

They spent most of the past year inventing a shelf-stable yogurt truffle, a beverage mix made with real fruit and a tangerine-flavored carbonated dairy beverage […]

This NSF-produced video features the work of CALS plant geneticist Jiming Jiang and plant pathologist John Helgeson. They discovered a late blight-resistance gene in a […]