A short stroll along Linden Drive and down Henry Mall takes visitors past the sites of some of the biggest scientific achievements of the past century. Those locations are no longer anonymous, thanks to a series of 19 plaques that highlights accomplishments at the UW-Madison”s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.

With fertilizer and energy prices high this year, Wisconsin growers may plant more soybeans and less corn. But state farmers, who planted 1.5 million acres of beans last year, face new pests that could cost them more than $50 per acre.

Holstein steers can pack on the pounds grazing kura clover/grass pastures, trials at the UW-Madison’s Lancaster Agricultural Research Station have shown. Steers grazing kura clover/grass outperformed those on red clover/grass, and far surpassed gains on alfalfa/grass reported in earlier studies at Lancaster. The kura clover-based pastures had no problems handling intensive grazing pressure, according to researchers at the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.

It’s September in Wisconsin – time for the last hot summer days, the first football games and the peak of wasp season.

A new soybean pest has appeared in fields scattered across Wisconsin during the past month, according to University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists. The soybean aphid also has turned up in northern Illinois and may soon be reported from Michigan.

As the air starts to get nippy in September and October, some kinds of insects begin to look around for a nice place to call home for the winter. Unfortunately, they may choose your house.

University of Wisconsin-Extension/Madison specialists are helping schools adapt a strategy farmers use to control weeds and bugs with a minimal amount of chemicals.

For the fourth straight year, Wisconsin will lead the nation with a cranberry harvest forecast at 2.4 million barrels of the tart, native fruit. From Tomah to Manitowish Waters the colorful harvest means income and jobs. Cranberries are the state’s most valuable fruit crop, with the 1997 crop valued at $162 million.

Forages will be the focus of the summer field day Wednesday, June 24 at the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences Marshfield Agricultural Research Station.

University entomologists from across the corn belt have a message that may leave many farmers shaking their heads.