If you closed your eyes — and maybe if David Bartling BS’13 wasn’t trying to shout over the roar of harvesting machinery — you […]

  In a state known for dairy, honey is not the first agricultural product to come to mind. But there’s more honey in the Badger […]

  Plant wildflowers, save the bees — or so the thinking goes. Agricultural authorities around the world promote restoring hedgerows and seeding flower strips between […]

  In A Win-Win-Win in Hawaii (Grow, spring 2023), Elise Mahon highlighted a study of the ecological, economic, and cultural benefits of the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National […]

  Rodrigo Werle wonders if anybody is ever really happy to see him. He is, after all, a weed scientist. He specializes in some of […]

  Almost 20 years ago, Natalia de Leon ’00, ’02 and Shawn Kaeppler BS’87, professors in the Department of Plant and Agroecosystem Sciences, set out […]

  In Sweet Solution, (Grow, fall 2022), Jori Skalitzky BS’22 introduced a team of UW scientists who were transforming a remnant of Greek yogurt production […]

  Hector DeLuca left his mark on the UW–Madison campus — literally. The professor emerit and former chair of biochemistry has three buildings that bear […]

  In the mid-1800s — a time when a relatively young country was marked by intense polarization that led to a civil war — American […]

  Synthetic herbicides were introduced to agriculture shortly after World War II. Affordable, reliable, and effective, they rapidly became the mainstay for weed management. Today, […]

  Undergrads, take heed: That career seminar your advisor recommended just might lead you to your actual career. Aaron Bodie PhD’22 is case in point. […]

  Charitable giving is a thread that runs through most of Fritz Friday’s life. As a young food science major at CALS in 1954, Friday […]