High school students and their parents have a chance next month to visit the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and see if the Farm and Industry Short Course will meet their needs.

Wisconsin, historically a leading state in apprenticeship training, may look to New Zealand to help revitalize dairy farming as a career, according to a researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems.

For the past 30 years, poems by Dave Dickson, extension dairyman at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, have brightened the winter holidays in America’s Dairyland. By popular demand, the complete collection of Dickson’s holiday poems is now available. “Christmas in Dairyland” offers 60 pages of fun and reminiscence about cows, country living and Christmas.

If you register a deer on opening day of this year’s gun deer season, you might notice people going over deer carcasses with a fine-toothed comb. They’ll be collecting deer ticks, but please don’t question their sanity. Survey results will help researchers map the deer tick’s range in Wisconsin, according to Susan Paskewitz, an entomologist at the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.

Milk components and component pricing will be featured at Marshfield Dairy Day, Dec. 5 at the University of Wisconsin Marshfield Agricultural Research Station.

University of Wisconsin-Madison biologist Neal L. First, a pioneer in the field of reproductive physiology, has been named the recipient of the 1997 Wolf Prize in Agriculture, the world’s most prestigious award for agricultural research.