A research team from the University of Wisconsin-Madison is enlisting the help of hundreds of U.S. dairy producers in an effort to prevent Johne’s disease. Johne’s may be the most serious infectious disease now threatening the U.S. dairy industry.

Beef and dairy producers who want to control twinning rates may soon get some help. Researchers have identified three regions of the cattle genome that contribute to an increased frequency of double ovulation in the animals.

Nearly fifty years after a landmark paper proposed the existence of what later came to be called jumping genes, scientists are getting their first clear snapshot of one caught in midleap.

Current dairy management strategies aimed at increasing milk production per cow may be leading to an increase in the rate of twinning in dairy cattle, according to a recent University of Wisconsin-Madison study.

A cell membrane protein thought mainly to bind “bad” cholesterol and remove it from circulation also plays a major role in reducing the production of that cholesterol, according to a study published this February in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.

Margaret R. Dentine, a dairy cattle geneticist, has been named associate dean for research and executive director of the Wisconsin Agricultural Experiment Station at the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.

Research reported in the 24 November 1998 edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences may herald a new era in biopharmaceutical production.

Margaret R. Dentine, a dairy scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has received the J. L. Lush Award in Animal Breeding in recognition of her outstanding research accomplishments in dairy cattle breeding.

Roger Wyse, dean of the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (CALS) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison since 1992, announced his resignation Monday, June 23, effective immediately. The attached letter containing reasons for Wyse’s resignation was delivered to Chancellor David Ward Monday morning.

When it comes to improving alfalfa, plant geneticist Edwin Bingham believes the job takes persistence. Bingham has become single-minded you might even say persistent in advocating for greater persistence as an agronomic virtue in alfalfa.