In the busy port town of Tema, Ghana, the driver of a tanker truck of gasoline northbound for Bamako, Mali, loads a few dozen pineapples […]

When it comes to Midwest farmland prices, Wisconsin is looking sort of like a tortoise in a field of hares.  That’s because farmers in America’s Dairyland often reinvest […]

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 […]

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Phil Harris: Good fences still mean good neighbors - Audio

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Good fences still make for good neighbors Phil Harris, Professor Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences peharris@wisc.edu Phone […]

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Dairy cows now retreating to islands - Audio

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Dairy cows move into “islands” Mark Stephenson, Dairy Policy Analyst Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences mwstephenson@wisc.edu Phone […]

Driving the search for renewable fuels and chemicals has been the realization that petroleum stores are rapidly dwindling. Now, in the heart of Wisconsin, a […]

Predicting what dairy farmers may get paid for the milk produced on their farms is a dicey piece of analysis. Slight changes in a few […]

While there’s no end of robust and heated conversation about genetically modified foods, there are strikingly few comprehensive studies that put a numeric value on […]