The UW-Madison’s West Madison Agricultural Research Station will hold its Urban Horticulture Field Day on Sat. August 19, from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m.

For the third straight year a team of forestry students were winners in the annual Upper Midwest Capstone Competition – and took home a $1,000 prize for their efforts.

A new idea for constructing post buildings won two University of Wisconsin-Madison students second place in competition for the best engineering design project related to agriculture.

Spring break wasn’t a vacation for a group of the College’s recreation resources management majors – even though they spent the week in the beautiful Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area, located between Kentucky Lake and Lake Barkley along the Kentucky/Tennessee border.

Exercise developed in College horticulture labs shows high-schoolers how to decipher genetic code

UW-Madison’s Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems has received a grant from the USDA’s National Research Initiative to strengthen the food supply chains that connect medium-sized farms and ranches to the marketplace – part of the National Initiative to Renew

Stressed potato plants are more susceptible to disease, which in turn reduces yield and can make the tubers more likely to rot during storage. To help farmers address this issue, a University of Wisconsin-Madison research team has determined that managing soil compaction can help keep potato crops healthy and stable during storage. That means a better bottom line both for farmers and processors.

A UW-Madison report indicates that farmers who use management intensive rotation grazing can result in higher net farm incomes than those earned on traditional confinement farms.

Fundamental research about a key step in RNA synthesis has important implications for the study of gene expression in other organisms

Some Wisconsin dairy cows may find themselves with less elbow room this year. The number of dairy cows in the state grew by 3,000 last year. This was only the second year since 1985 that Wisconsin’s dairy herd didn’t shrink (the other was 1994)