Are you wondering how you will get the nine daily servings of fruit and vegetables recently recommended by the US Department of Agriculture? The 2005 Farm Fresh Atlas makes healthy eating easy by placing information about locally grown produce, meat, eggs, cheese and other food at your fingertips.

Place names throughout the United States such as Montezuma, Aztec, Anahuac, Tula and others have traditionally been attributed to the romanticism of 19th-century U.S. archaeologists. But an ongoing, collaborative research effort that includes exploring cartographic, linguistic, agricultural, and cultural connections between the peoples of North and South America has challenged that view.

Scholarships worth $70,000 will be awarded this year to students attending the Farm and Industry Short Course at the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.

Prospective dairy farmers have until April 1 to apply for an innovative program, now entering its 11th year, to help them establish their own grass-based dairy farms in Wisconsin.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison Saddle and Sirloin Club would like to announce the annual Saddle and Sirloin Club Swine Project Awards. Up to five awards of $100 each will be awarded to first- or second-year swine project members.

Applications are now being accepted for the 2005 Badger Dairy Camp, June 9 to June 11 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Young adults can be motivated to eat more servings of fruits and vegetables if they are exposed to tailored, practical messages about nutrition.

Youth dairy experts from Vernon and Dane counties captured top honors at this year’s State 4-H Dairy Bowl, held Jan. 29 in Portage.

The Wisconsin Brown Swiss Association is offering youth a $500 loan to use toward purchase of a registered Brown Swiss calf. Participants must be between the ages of 10 and 17 as of Jan.1, 2005.

Building on its long history of community outreach, the Department of Landscape Architecture hosted a reception celebrating a new partnership between the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences and the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwa Community College.