Agroecosystem Sciences News Today

Cannabis plants found in tulip gardens at the Wisconsin State Capitol Building

Purdue University’s Midwestern Regional Climate Center (MRCC) has launched its new interactive chilling hours tool. Growers now can more closely monitor accumulated chilling hours, an important factor that tracks how long fruit plants have been exposed to an ideal range

WEST LAFAYETTE — Purdue University’s Midwestern Regional Climate Center (MRCC) has launched its new interactive chilling hours tool. Growers can now more closely monitor accumulated chilling hours, an essential factor that tracks how long fruit plants have been exposed to an ideal ...

Rather than looking at a species as having a single, human-centered function, to understand the feral is to see individual plants with the complexity that seeds entire ecosystems.

To produce food in the face of climate change, we may need to learn from so-called weeds.

This year marks the 51st year of corn-hybrid performance evaluation conducted by the Wisconsin Agronomy Department – now the Department of Plant and Agroecosystem Sciences, the Wisconsin Crop Improvement Association

MADISON, Wis. -- The second-annual Harvest Fest was held Saturday at Wyman Kitchen Gardens, putting a spotlight on African American, Latin and Native American cuisine.

She was describing one of many problems plant geneticists are trying to tackle. Add to unseasonable temperatures, drought, flooding, disease, pests and a growing global population that will require farmers to grow more food on less land with more efficiency, and it’s enough to, well, as one headline stated: “Summer heat can lead to summer depression.”

Valley Stewardship Network (VSN) presents: "Learning to Live Without the Dams - Whats the Role of Land Cover and Land Management?"

MADISON, Wis. – It’s official. The University of Wisconsin-Department of Plant and Agroecosystem Sciences was born July 1, the result of a merger of the departments of agronomy and horticulture