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Declining interest, revenue ended UW-Madison farm training course. Now lawmakers are pushing to fund it at UW-River Falls.

UW-Madison announced in 2022 that it was ending the 16-week on-campus certificate program, with plans to transition to a mix of online and in-person trainings. University officials said enrollment had been declining over the last decade, and the smaller classes weren’t enough to support operation of the revenue-generating course.