Nitrogen deficiency is one of the biggest hurdles when adopting no-till corn production in Wisconsin. Most agronomists would say that ammonia lost from surface-applied urea-containing fertilizers (volatilization) and nitrogen tied up with organic matter in residue (immobilization) are the reasons more nitrogen is needed on no-till corn. However, these explanations are not supported by current research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

The UW-Madison Academic Quadrathlon team celebrated its 20th anniversary with a win at the National Cattleman’s Beef Association National Beef Bowl competition in Kansas City, Mo. on Jan. 31.

For the past 30 years, poems by Dave Dickson, extension dairyman at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, have brightened the winter holidays in America’s Dairyland. By popular demand, the complete collection of Dickson’s holiday poems is now available. “Christmas in Dairyland” offers 60 pages of fun and reminiscence about cows, country living and Christmas.

If you register a deer on opening day of this year’s gun deer season, you might notice people going over deer carcasses with a fine-toothed comb. They’ll be collecting deer ticks, but please don’t question their sanity. Survey results will help researchers map the deer tick’s range in Wisconsin, according to Susan Paskewitz, an entomologist at the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.