威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校的农业生态MS计划创建于2007年，训练学生在更广泛的环境和社会经济背景下研究和分析农业系统。这项工作的关键是跨学科的专业知识，农业生态学计划是通过与来自校园内近20个系的附属教职员工合作而实现的。农业生态计划得到了跨学科农业生态集群的支持，该集群在2002年雇用了三名教师：社区和环境社会学的Michael Bell，昆虫学的Claudio Gratton和农艺学的Randall Jackson。这些仍然活跃在该计划中的教职员工，是如今由50多个教职员工组成的小组的催化剂，他们为农业
Created in 2007, the Agroecology MS program at UW–Madison trains students to research and analyze agricultural systems within a broader environmental and socioeconomic context. Housed in the Department of Plant and Agroecosystem Sciences, the agroecology program achieves through working with affiliated faculty members from nearly 20 departments across campus.<br><br>A typical cohort consists of 8–12 incoming students with diverse backgrounds and undergraduate majors. Agroecology MS students work with faculty on focused projects across a wide range of the traditional departments of the academy. Our core curriculum brings together these students for a multidisciplinary, agroecological analysis of agricultural systems in a broadened context.<br><br>The agroecology program is supported by the interdisciplinary agroecology cluster, which hired three faculty members in 2002: Michael Bell in community and environmental sociology, Claudio Gratton in entomology, and Randall Jackson in agronomy. These faculty, all still active in the program, were the catalyst for what is now a group of more than 50 faculty affiliates who advise agroecology students and participate in program governance.