When hot pavement raises the temperature of stormwater runoff, trout and other coldwater species are put at risk. CALS researchers are refining tools that can help developers predict and mitigate the problem.

On Oct. 15 the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences will present its Honorary Recognition Award to Debra Crave and Michael Krutza and its Distinguished Service Award to Joachim von Elbe. Hector DeLuca and Richard Scheller will both receive the new Distinguished Alumni Award.

An optical mapping system used by a UW-Madison scientist allowed a research team to map the genome of the pathogen that causes this costly disease and gain insight on its destructive potential

When CALS alum Joe Glauber was named chief economist in February 2008, his office was issuing some of its most optimistic reports in decades. Now he’s reporting 50 percent drops in exports and forecasting huge drops in net farm income.

After graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a double major in marketing and human resources, Sara Brummel joined UW-Madison’s Babcock Hall Dairy Store in December as store manager.

News about late blight in has raised concerns among retailers, processors and other users about the availability and quality of stored potatoes in Wisconsin this winter, reports Bussan disputes that.A.J. Bussan, UW-Madison extension vegetable specialist. But Bussan doesn’t think that either quality or quantity potatoes will be a problem.

The study shows that Wisconsin agriculture contributes in a significant way to the state’s economic base despite the acute financial pressures caused by low prices for several products including milk and cheese as well as high input costs. The study’s findings indicate agriculture’s economic activity increased 14.9 percent, up from $51.5 billion, from a similar study conducted in 2004 using data for 2000.

This summer, Doug Soldat is saving for a not-so-rainy day. He’s banking rainwater, up to 8,000 gallons of it, enough to keep the lawn at UW-Madison’s O.J. Noer turfgrass center lush through the driest weeks of summer.

For the first time this summer, UW Housing’s Dining and Culinary Services is sourcing some of its produce from a small plot in Allen Centennial Gardens on campus.

While at the UW-Madison, biochemist Har Gobind Khorana helped crack the genetic code, completing a set of experiments that garnered him a Nobel Prize in 1968. Shortly thereafter, he went on to synthesize the first artificial gene. Now he is being honored at a symposium titled