University of Wisconsin-Madison Hancock Agricultural Research Station

08/04/2026

Our Garden Open House is coming up! Join us on Thursday from 4-7pm. Community groups including the Waushara County Food Pantry, the Hancock Citizens Committee, the Waushara County Gardeners, and the Hancock Rural Entrepreneurial Venture will be there with information. Light refreshments and live music!!

07/24/2026

Shout-out to our Rhinelander Agricultural Research Station team for hosting a really nice field day, yesterday!! Nice job all, my team and I really enjoyed our time up at your station yesterday! 👍😁

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At the Rhinelander Agricultural Research Station in Rhinelander, UW-Madison professors and grad students are working hard and trying to find new ways to help potatoes grow.

07/22/2026

Save the Date for our Garden Open House!
Thursday August 6th from 4-7pm

07/21/2026

07/03/2026

Our annual Potato Research Field Day is coming up! We hope you can join us on Thursday July 9th from 1-4pm to learn about the current research projects at the station.

06/09/2026

The crew has been hard at work getting everything planted at the station! Stop by the display garden to enjoy some blooms and pollinators - open dawn til dusk daily 🌸

06/04/2026

Great photos from UW-Madison’s Taylor Wolfram visiting the station during potato planting! Stay tuned for this feature in On Wisconsin magazine highlighting one of our core research faculty, Amanda Gevens.

06/03/2026

We had a great group of 3rd graders from Tri-county visit the station last week to plant pumpkins! They will return in the fall as 4th graders to harvest their pumpkins. Always fun having students at the station! 🌱