The tenth annual Wisconsin Aquaculture Conference,

We may never know how chronic wasting disease got into Wisconsin’s wild deer herd, but we’re going to get a better idea of how the disease could move across the state’s farm and forest landscapes.

Since the discovery of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in Wisconsin deer this past spring, many individuals have expressed concern over the safety of venison. This fact sheet is designed to give you some background information on CWD, and to answer questions related to venison safety and handling this fall.

Counting a few hundred thousand bats sounds about as easy as herding a few thousand cats, but a UW-Madison researcher is successfully tallying the winter residents at one of the largest bat hibernation sites in the Midwest.

University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers, working with an Illinois city and a Milwaukee County Zoo curator, hope to surgically scale down an urban deer herd that has outgrown its welcome. Sterilizing does should eventually, and non-lethally, pare deer numbers in the Highland Park herd, according to Nancy Mathews, a wildlife ecologist at the UW-Madison’s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.

Registration is now open for a four-day fishing course designed for people who want to gain a greater appreciation of aquatic resources around them, and improve their ability to catch fish.

Do your friends and family applaud your priceless sense of humor? Or do they roll their eyes in complete denial of your talent? Either way, here’s your chance to show off your cleverness, wit, and knowledge of farming, and possibly win a cash prize.

Farmers have the option of signing up their land in the new Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program until at least the end of September. But they should consider the costs and benefits before deciding whether to enroll and, if they decide to enroll, for how long, according to a University of Wisconsin-Madison agricultural economist.

When the soybean aphid first appeared in the United States in 2000, Wisconsin farmers saw what it could do. Where infestations were severe, the aphids and the viruses they transmit cut soybean yields by 10 to 15 percent.

What goes in must come out, and in the case of phosphorus, too much has been going into cows and coming out on farmlands. New state and federal rules aimed at curbing runoff pollution are going to affect many Wisconsin farms.