Doug Maxwell, emeritus professor of plant pathology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has won this year”s Chair”s Award for Scientific Excellence from the Board for International Food and Agricultural Development.

Wildlife ecologist Nancy Mathews admits she had a few anxious moments last November. As part of a chronic wasting disease study, Mathews had dozens of deer traps set in two areas of the CWD

The tenth annual Wisconsin Aquaculture Conference,

One of the biggest, broadest questions in the Discovery Farms Program is the following: If water quality needs to be improved, what are the best things we can do in land management to make it better?

As anyone who has driven across rural Wisconsin can tell you, tower silos are one of the most prominent features on the landscape. Up to 100 feet high, these domed towers are the traditional method of storing forage to feed livestock during the winter. In recent years, however, huge plastic “sausages” have sprouted throughout farm country.

Soybean growers across southern Wisconsin are confronting an unexpected and costly surprise at harvest. Some of their beans are wrinkled, moldy and mottled with dark blotches on the typically creamy yellow seeds.

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.

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.

Although white pine first brought loggers to northern Wisconsin, another evergreen giant – hemlock – actually outnumbered white pine at the time. Today, travelers driving across large parts of the Northwoods may see only scattered hemlocks or small, isolated groves.

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.