From glow-in-the-dark bacteria to televised tours of a live cow’s stomach, hot-rod tractors to virtual forests, you’ll find a variety of scientific show-and-tells at the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences Open House, Saturday, August 19 beginning at 10 a.m.

A luncheon speech on grain markets and four field tours will highlight this year’s Agronomy Field Day on Thursday, Sept. 14 at the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences Arlington Agricultural Research Station.

At one time, weeding was a tedious, backbreaking part of farm work. Today it’s a tedious, backbreaking part of research. Just ask Jed Colquhoun, Shawn Conley or Mike Moechnig.

High school juniors and seniors, their parents, and other prospective students are invited to visit the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and see if the Farm and Industry Short Course will meet their needs.

A study of vegetation changes in Wisconsin’s northwest sand country reveals a dramatic decline in pine barrens, pines and open habitats, and an increase in oak and aspen forests over the past 140 years.

For a second year, the Wisconsin Soybean Marketing Board and the University of Wisconsin-Madison will help soybean growers monitor their fields for the soybean cyst nematode.

Farmers across the state can visit an internet site to check on the corn borer situation, see if potato late blight is a problem, or find out if they should flood their cranberry bogs. It’s all part of a revolution in the way growers get weather and related information.

The amount of nitrogen that leached from two corn fields during a three-year study was many times greater than that leaching from a restored prairie, according to University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists.

The soil under a restored prairie in southern Wisconsin received much less moisture but retained more of it than two nearby corn fields, according to University of Wisconsin-Madison research.

Thirty-seven years of data collected from a plot at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Arlington agricultural research station is yielding alarming results: acidification from excess fertilizer is wearing out the soil.