Category: Agriculture

Find out why livestock farmers in Wisconsin are getting excited about solar.

Using the best science available, we can now definitively point to the agricultural practices that have the greatest potential for reducing agricultural emissions in Wisconsin, and at what scale of adoption Wisconsin will need these practices implemented to achieve net-zero by 2050 in the agriculture sector.

We’ve been talking about Neonicotinoids, or neonics, a lot lately.

What we know about the impacts of neonic pesticides on our bodies and how to limit exposure.

Many farmers are choosing to integrate solar panels into their fields. Now a new analysis shows that decision can impact a lot more than energy costs and the climate.

Wisconsin Republicans and Democrats are coming together to help farmers incorporate more grazing practices on Wisconsin livestock farms.

Dozens of people packed Karben4 Brewing’s tasting room on an unseasonably warm day in late January for an exciting step forward for climate-smart agriculture: the launch of a new beer brewed with Kernza® that was entirely sourced from Wisconsin farms.

A pesticide used on virtually all of our corn and soybeans is harming pollinators at very low levels of exposure in ways that are only just being studied.

Learn about an experimental batch of beer at Karben4 Brewing in Madison that has the farming research world taking notice.

In October, hundreds of people gathered at UW Madison and tuned in online for the first ever Wisconsin Neonic Forum.