A new sculpture at the Chazen Museum connects agriculture on two continents.
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The effects of the All Ways Forward comprehensive campaign are everywhere, though many are subtle.
The Department of Animal and Dairy Sciences has a fabulous new building.
UW–Madison innovations help farmers reinvent themselves in challenging times.
Hancock Agricultural Research Station delves into vegetable experimentation.
UW researchers are unlocking the secrets to growing food in outer space.
James ’93 and Rob ’96 Baerwolf drew on UW innovations to develop Sassy Cow Creamery.
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Nic Mink ’02, PhD’10 is mad as halibut, and he’s not going to take it anymore. Mink likes fish. But he very much prefers his fish to be good fish. The world has too much bad-tasting seafood, he argues, and it doesn’t have to…
Who moo? Cool showers can comfort cows while they’re being milked.
UW researchers are using drones to search for more sustainable farming methods.
Photo by Angie Treinen
Angie Treinen ’88, DVM’93 received a novel idea this year from the UW’s Geology Museum for her family farm’s award-winning corn maze: a giant trilobite. The now-extinct marine creature — and the state’s official fossil — once cruised the planet’s seas, including those…
From scientific marvels to meaningful mementos, items found in the offices of UW professors help tell their stories.
The $43 billion Wisconsin industry has benefited from a long tradition of UW support.
From urban gardening to Southern black farmers who organized against oppression, UW assistant professor Monica White’s research reveals a missing chapter in the civil rights narrative.
There’s more to genetically modified foods than what you hear in political debate. Just ask UW professor Jiming Jiang and his hardy — if unloved — potato.
Award-winning chef Tory Miller (right) is part of a new UW program that links breeders and growers with top Madison chefs.
For farmers who sell vegetables directly to consumers, disease resistance and high yield are often the top priorities when choosing varieties, but a UW…
Tractor image, Shutterstock; all other images, IStock; photo illustration by Nancy Rinehart
Growing up on a dairy farm in Viroqua, Wisconsin, Melanie Buhr-Lawler ’00 heard her dad’s tractors and other loud equipment every day. Now, as a clinical associate professor of audiology at UW–Madison,…
Big find: specimens George Washington Carver collected uncovered at the UW.
UW's first enologist is mixing science and business to make Wisconsin's wine — and its wine industry — more robust.
Irwin Goldman packages seeds for the Open Source Seed Initiative. Using envelopes such as the one below, OSSI sent material to 6,000 people in 16 countries. Photo: Bryce Richter.
Free the seeds, feed the future.
Last April, professors Irwin Goldman of horticulture and Jack…
For Melinda Myers MS’86, there’s something special about helping people grow their first tomato.
The Young Coleoptera Collection brings the UW bunches of beetles.
Dairy is not "straw hats and bib overalls" at the UW. The flagship institution in America's Dairyland draws on a long history of lacto-research, modern technology, and big data to thrive in what has become a very scientific field.
With his accidental discovery of Vitamin A, UW professor Elmer McCollum kickstarted the field of modern nutrition.
“Ag 101” training for the Wisconsin National Guard.