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West Madison Agricultural Research Station Primary

WMARS is used by almost all disciplines in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences with focus Smith Greenhouse, O.J.
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ROLE AND PURPOSE
The West Madison Station serves the following roles for CALS:
1) To provide research support to faculty and staff for field plot research. Being relatively close to the UW-Madison campus, the station is convenient for projects which are labor intensive or need daily attention throughout the majority of the growing season;
2) To provide animal feed and manure handling for all resea

rch livestock on campus. This requires producing feed in cooperation with the Arlington Ag Research Station;
3) To provide various services to CALS departments – primarily Dairy Science, Animal Sciences, Animal Health and Biomedical Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine at Charmany Instructional Facility, Walnut Street Greenhouse, Campus Greenhouse, D.C. Noer Turfgrass Facility, Allen Centennial Gardens, Wisconsin Ag and Life Sciences Alumni Association, Daughters of Demeter, and CALS student groups.

08/08/2024

07/30/2024

Come check out our field day this Thursday!

07/24/2024

Lots of cute critters at the garden this summer! Stop in and check them out at 8452 Mineral Point Road!

07/02/2024

All this rain can't keep our plants down! The new genetics being trialed here make them very disease resistant, so they can handle this rainy season🌻🌧

Stop in to see our wonderful display gardens!

06/25/2024

Happy National Pollinator Month! Come visit the West Madison Display Gardens to see the busy bees at work!

05/22/2024

New annuals just planted for the summer!! Come stop in and check out the flowers as they bloom! Also come visit the best cat in the world, Leon :)

05/09/2024

Stop by the gardens, the peonies will be blooming, after your garden stroll, shop the plant sale!

09/18/2023

Fall is here! We have pumpkins and squash available on the wagon. The gardens still look beautiful, stop by and walk through, enjoy the wonderful weather before winter blows in🙃

09/12/2023

WINE GRAPES FOR SALE

1,500 # Petite Pearl Wine Grapes @ $0.85/ #.

Please email if interested.

[email protected]

08/15/2023

Upcoming Event at the Station
8502 Mineral Point Road, Verona, WI
Thursday, August 31, 2023, 1:00 - 4:00 pm
Organic Strawberry Field Day

More information and registration details:

Event Timing: Thursday, August 31 (1:00 pm - 4:00 pm) Event Address: 8502 Mineral Point Rd, Verona, WI 53593 Cost: Free

07/20/2023

Beautiful Asian lilies on display!

08/27/2021

Meet this summer’s fabulous team of display garden interns!

Katarina Testerman is a senior horticulture student. She is interested in conservation of plant biodiversity and improving fruit and vegetable production to lessen the environmental impact while still keeping it profitable for farmers. In the garden you will most likely find her engaged in combat with our pesky Japanese beetle foes or taking a moment to capture a photo of Jimmy (our resident hawk) flying overhead!

Grace Puc is a returning intern finishing her second summer with us here at the station. She is a fourth year environmental sciences student with a focus in sustainable agriculture. Grace is most passionate about tackling the issues of food waste and food insecurity by using the problems to combat one another. Her favorite activity in the garden is harvesting produce, but while she doesn’t love to w**d she can’t pass a bed without picking the rogue lambs quarter, so most often she is preoccupied with this.

Sofia Weinstein is a rising senior double majoring in agricultural and applied economics and plant pathology. She is interested in using science and economics to find sustainable solutions to today’s agricultural problems while benefiting local economies, cultures and the environment. In the garden you will find her in the Afrodiasporic garden trellising the tomatoes!

08/27/2021

The West Madison Station has had a busy summer harvesting produce from okra in our Afro-diaspora plots to table grapes (and soon - wine grapes too!).

Address

8502 Mineral Point Road
Madison, WI
53593

Website

http://westmadison.ars.wisc.edu/

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