Agriculture + state laws

Hein Online - Subject Compilations of State Laws
A directory of 18,000+ articles, books, government documents, court opinions & websites that compare state laws on hundreds of subjects.

Subjects include:

• Agricultural Cooperatives
• Agricultural Districts
• Agriculture
• Biotechnology
• Corporate Farming
• Environmental Protection
• Farm Machinery
• Farm Products
• Farmland
• Farms and Farming
• Flowers
• Food
• Grain Dealers
• Insects
• Land Use
• Organic Farming and Food
  
• Pesticides
• Plants
• Right to Farm
• Scientific Research
• Viruses
• Wetlands
• Wildlife

Wisconsin State Statutes
There's also a Subject Matter Index for the Wisconsin Statutes. Topics of interest include:

• Agricultural societies
• Agriculture, Trade, and Consumer Protection Dept.
• Agriculture and farming
• Animals
  
• Cranberries
• Endangered species
  
• Fertilizer
• Fish and game
  
• Food regulation
  
• Forest croplands
  
• Forests, logging and trees
  
• Groundwater protection
• Insect pests
• Irrigation
• Lyme disease
• Managed forest lands
• National Forests
• National Parkways
• Natural Resources Department
• Nurseries
• Pesticides
• Plants and plant industry
• Pollution
• Rural planning
• Soil
• Soil and water conservation
• State Geologist
  
• Statistics
  
• Weeds
  

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UW Digital Collections

The UW Digital Collections Center has digitized images and texts across many subject areas.

Here are those most relevant to plant & insect sciences:

Aldo Leopold Archives

• Main site
  

Digital Library for the Decorative Arts & Material Culture

• Main site
  
• Sketches and Hints on Landscape Gardening

Ecology and Natural Resources Collection

• Main site
  
• Arboretum Unpublished Research Works
• Minerals Yearbook
• Our first 50 years: the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum 1934-1984
• Proceedings of the Annual Conference on Wetlands Restoration and Creation
• Proceedings of the North American Prairie Conference
• Research Report (Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources)
• Soils of Wisconsin
• Technical Bulletin (Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources)
• Transport, Fate and Effects of Silver in the Environment
• Virginia M. Kline Collection: Ecological Communities of Wisconsin
• Wisconsin Groundwater Research and Monitoring Program Reports
• Wisconsin Land Economic Inventory Maps (Bordner Survey)

History of Science and Technology

• Main site
  
• Luther Burbank: His Methods and Discoveries and their Practical Application
• Pioneer Microbiologists of America
• Root Nodule Bacteria and Leguminous Plants
• Smithsonian Science Series

Science Collection

• Main site
  
• University of Wisconsin - Madison Botany Department Teaching Collection

State of Wisconsin Collection

• Main site
  
• A History of Agriculture in Wisconsin
• History of Wisconsin Agriculture and Rural Life
• Wisconsin Horticulturist: issued monthly by the WI State Horticultural Society

Wisconsin Cranberry School Proceedings

• Main site
  

Wisconsin Public Land Survey Records

• Main site
  

History of UW Horticulture

A Century of Horticulture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison: 1889-1989
By Malcolm N. Dana
Steenbock Library, RBW7 AC 11.5 Ce 333 (4th floor)

• 1849 -- UW-Madison founded
• 1883-1885 -- Prof. William Trelease taught horticulture and botany
• 1885 -- Farm Short Course began; Horticulture participated from beginning
• 1889 -- Department of Horticulture founded, Prof. Emmett S. Goff hired
• 1889-1911 -- Located in King Hall; then moved to Horticulture Building
• 1889-1989 -- 90 faculty over the first century
• 1903-1917 -- Cranberry Experiment Station, 5 miles west of Port Edwards on Hwy 54
• 1904 -- Extension education as an assigned responsibility started with appt. of Walter S. Brown
• 1909 -- Cooperative Extension Service founded; preceded by less formal cooperation and education (ex: with WI Horticultural Society and WI State Cranberry Growers Assn.)
• 1915 -- Landscape architecture faculty "group" got underway
• 1916 -- Hancock Ag Research Station, Waushara County - marginally productive "Golden Sands" area with low water-holding capacity, subject to wind erosion and drought; early 1950s started irrigation from subsurface with aluminum pipe
• 1922 -- Peninsular Agricultural Research Station near Sturgeon Bay - apples, sour cherries, etc.
• 1934 -- Arboretum dedicated; Prof. Longenecker was its 1st director
• 1960 -- Acquired 160-acre farm, now connected to Arlington Ag Research Station; previous plots had been on site of Russell Labs, Babcock Hall, Nielsen Stadium, WARF building, and Parking lot 60
• 1960-1980 -- Built 10 greenhouses on Walnut St., and 9 at Arlington
• 1963 -- Plant Pathology moved to Russell Labs
• 1963-1967 -- UW CALS had contract with USAID for on-site faculty assistance at selected institutions outside U.S. - Horticulture faculty worked in Nigeria and Brazil
• 1964 -- Landscape Architecture founded as separate department, under Prof. Longenecker
• 1970s -- Added Horticulture Annex at 2105 Herrick Lane
• 1974 -- Transferred Rhinelander Agricultural Research Station to the Experimental Farms Office
• mid1970s -- Up until now, offered PhDs only on a joint major basis with other depts.
• mid1970s -- Plant Breeding and Plant Genetics major founded
• 1989 -- New "outdoor classroom garden" [Allen Centennial] under construction by "Old President's House"

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P. 7 "At the time of his retirement [Ray H.] Roberts was working with substances extracted from green plants by immersing them in refined oil. Storing the oil and dissolved material in a freezer resulted in small quantities of crystalline material forming in the bottom of the container. Roberts obtained growth regulator effects from his "anthogens," and at one time proposed he had isolated the flowering hormone, florigen. The crystalline substance was supposed to suppress skin cancer formation in mice. Unfortunately, the crude method of extraction apparently resulted in different materials being extracted at different times and perhaps several compounds being mixed. In any event, chemists were never able to identify any specific substance, and thus the work was all lost when Roberts, in failing health, left the department."

P. 19 "Unfortunately, no accurate record of successful advanced degree candidates has been maintained over the years. Before 1950 there were few graduate students, but after 1950 the number of enrolled graduate students has ranged from 30-60 in all semesters with about half being masters degree candidates and half PhD candidates. Over 100 PhDs were granted between 1950 and 1988 and a greater number of masters degrees."

[Cranberry image from UW-Madison Department of Horticulture website]

New research tool: Alt-Press Watch

Alt-Press Watch:

• Added 11/17/08 for all UW-Madison faculty/staff/students or on-site library users
• Articles from 190+ magazines and local newsweeklies
• Contains full-text articles, unlike Alternative Press Index (abstracts 250 publications)

Selected publications:

• Alternatives Journal
• E: the Environmental Magazine
• Earth First!
• Econews
• Environment
• Foreign Policy in Focus
• Global Pesticide Campaigner
• High Country News
• In These Times
• The Isthmus
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• Multinational Monitor
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• Utne Reader
• World Watch