We made it! Our determined group of ten riders completed the 235-mile ride from Cadott to Madison June 24 to June 27 in great spirits … and with only

A group of food science students captured first place this year in a national product development contest for

Ground was broken July 7 for the new Cereal Crops Research Unit on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The new facility is funded and operated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service.

Researchers at the Center for Eukaryotic Structural Genomics, based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, have received a $20 million award to fund Phase II of the Protein Structure Initiative over the next five years. Information from the PSI project, funded by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, will deepen our understanding of a variety of biological processes.

A grant from the UW-Madison Graduate School’s Technology Transfer Program will fund a project that uses computer mapping and statistical modeling to identify likely habitat of the endangered Karner blue butterfly–which could help Wisconsin land managers save thousands of dollars on field surveys required to protect the rare insect.

A milk pasteurization and process control certification course will be held Aug. 16-17 at the Babcock Dairy Plant on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.

William C. Thiesenhusen, emeritus professor of agricultural economics and agricultural journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and former director of the university’s Land Tenure Center, died after suffering a heart attack the weekend of June 25-26 at his residence near Madison. He was 68 years old.

The first of four Area Animal Science Days was held at Gays Mills in Crawford County on Friday, June 24. In the dairy cattle judging competition, 113 youth judged eight classes of dairy cows and heifers. In all, 52 senior judges gave oral reasons and 61 juniors answered conformation-related questions as they all competed for spots in their respective state contests.

More than 100 campers from three states attended the seventh annual Badger Dairy Camp held on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus June 9 to June 11.

City and country come together in late June to support an important cause – the next generation of Wisconsin dairy farmers – at a fun, food-centered benefit dubbed