The steering committee for the Discovery Farms program met for the first time July 20 to devise a strategy for selecting the first group of commercial farms to be included in the research program.

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.

To answer producers’ calls for help in dealing with current and coming environmental regulations, Discovery Farms are being recruited to provide on-farm partnerships that will help to determine cost-effective best-management practices.

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.

Lydia Zepeda, an associate professor of consumer science, has been chosen as director of the Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

If you’re supplementing phosphorus in a typical Wisconsin dairy diet, you’re probably feeding too much of the mineral. Cutting back on supplementation won’t hurt production or herd health, and you’ll be doing a favor for water quality, according to researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences and the USDA Dairy Forage Research Center.

University of Wisconsin-Madison forest scientists are heading into Canada to determine how fires in the great boreal forest alter its uptake and release of carbon dioxide. Their findings will help policymakers understand the region’s role in global warming.

With the soybean harvest near an end, now is the time to think about testing next year’s fields for the soybean cyst nematode.

Orchardist Dale Secher speaks for many Wisconsin fruit growers when he says that he cares about his customers as much as his bottom line.

The Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has announced the appointment of five people to its Citizens Advisory Council. The new members will help set the agenda for Wisconsin research on food production, marketing, and distribution systems that are profitable, environmentally friendly, and good for local communities.