If the family farm in America is thought of as a threatened species, representing a way of life that is slowly dying out, then the black family farm can be regarded as an endangered species, teetering on the edge of extinction.

Quick: Who is Canada”s Head of State? If you don”t know, you”re not alone. Although Canada and the United States are major trading partners and […]

Like pieces in an elaborate jigsaw puzzle, molecules interact based on the way they fit together. A tiny crevice or bump might cause a reaction to proceed, or keep it from happening at all. Working at the crossroads of mathematics, chemistry, and biology, one UW-Madison scientist uses computers to model molecular shapes and identify features that may influence interaction.

To help enlighten UW-Madison students about the Maple Leaf State, forestry professor Jeff Stier will teach a new class this fall about Canadian environmental policy.

Tewodaj Mogues returned to her native Ethiopia to learn how rural families cope with disasters such as drought. The project seeks to identify policies that help poor households retain assets during these shocks so they can avoid recurrent cycles of poverty and reliance on food aid.

Vitamin A, a nutrient found in foods like eggs, meat and dairy products, appears to play a key role in preventing heart defects in developing embryos and may promote healthy adult hearts as well, according to a UW-Madison scientist.

Wisconsin’s dairy industry is in the midst of major restructuring, brought on by changes in national and international competition, new federal marketing and pricing programs, and challenges of mature production and processing infrastructures. If the state’s dairy industry is to prosper and expand, it must find new ways to produce milk at prices competitive with other regions of the country and the world, and do that while protecting environmental quality and enhancing agriculture’s natural-resource base.

To certify or not to certify: that is the question facing state foresters and policymakers this year. Certification of forests is comparable to having the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval. It assures consumers and industry purchasers that the wood products they buy come from forests that are managed well, with sustainable, ecologically sound practices. This is a far cry from the early 20th-century practice of

Cranberry growers know the symptoms well: hard, dark-colored bumps on stems, brown leaves and dried-up fruit. The disease, cranberry stem gall, causes major damage to crops and shrugs off treatment with fungicide. However, a UW-Madison plant scientist’s latest research suggests that the key to understanding the disease may lie in the previously unexplored combination of bacteria in the soil and environmental factors.

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are developing a vaccine against Toxoplasma gondii, a parasite that is the third leading cause of foodborne deaths in the United States.