Highly productive corn varieties have more trouble adapting to changing environmental conditions, so more balanced breeding may be needed

Gerry Weiss, a Grant County farmer, scientist, and permaculturist, recounts a lifetime of innovation and collaboration with CALS and UW Cooperative Extension

Anna Snider’s recent volunteer work has taken her to Nigeria, Bangladesh, and beyond, but her love of horticulture and farming started in Wisconsin. She grew […]

The Wisconsin Seed Potato Certification Program uses a high-tech campus facility to help keep spuds disease free for state farmers.

A new study quantifies the need to reduce phosphorus in our soils—for the health of our lakes and rivers

The new Wisconsin Crop Innovation Center is poised to serve as an exciting incubator for agricultural improvement.

For Dominic Parker, a professor of agricultural and applied economics, a research foray into mining practices in Africa dug up some unexpected findings. Parker wanted […]

With leadership that includes CALS, Vincent Agricultural High School is reborn

A decades-long CALS field project offers key insights into different approaches to agriculture

Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Smith-Hughes Act—and remembering the CALS ag educator who soon after its passage wrote an inspiring creed for farmers

1. You’ve eaten them without knowing it. If the word “pulse” as a food leaves you flummoxed, fear not. The word pulse comes from the […]

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