Entries are due Jan. 10 for the 2005 Wisconsin 4-H Dairy Bowl competition. The event will be held Saturday, Jan. 29 at the Portage High School in Portage, Wis., starting at 9:45 a.m. Dairy Bowl is a quiz competition in which all the questions are about dairy topics. Teams compete in a double-elimination format by giving oral answers to questions posed by a moderator. Each match has both an individual and toss-up question round.

A CALS research partnership with a local manufacturer of cycling products has resulted in a generous donation of new equpiment for University of Wisconsin Sports Medicine physical therapy patients.

In recent months consumers have become all too familiar with news of oil costs spiking, and most experts agree that higher prices at the pump are likely here to stay. As the demand for alternative forms of energy grows,

A team of 4-H dairy cattle judges from Dodge County took first place at the 83rd Annual National 4-H Dairy Cattle Judging Contest, held Sept. 27 at World Dairy Expo in Madison. The Wisconsin team placed high team overall out of 30 state 4-H teams, coming in 20 points ahead of second-place Michigan. This marks the fourth year out of the last five that a Wisconsin county team has won the contest.

For the 15th time since 1980, the University of Wisconsin-Madison dairy cattle judging team has won the prestigious Oral Reasons competition at the National Collegiate Dairy Cattle Judging contest. The UW-Madison team placed third overall at the contest; 25 national and international teams competed at World Dairy Expo in Madison.

The Crave brothers of Waterloo, Lawrie Kull of Stillwater, Minn., Robert Rennebohm of Madison, and Robert Williams of Pardeeville will receive Honorary Recognition awards Oct. 27 from the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The awards will be presented at a banquet in the Memorial Union on the UW-Madison campus.

A team of dairy cattle judges from the University of Wisconsin-Madison competed at the Eastern States Exposition Intercollegiate Dairy Cattle Judging Contest, Sept. 18 at West Springfield, Mass. The UW-Madison team placed third overall and was second in Milking Shorthorns, Jerseys and Holsteins, and third in Brown Swiss.

Three teams of dairy cattle judges from the University of Wisconsin-Madison competed at the Accelerated Genetics 11th Annual Midwest Intercollegiate Dairy Cattle Judging Contest, Sept. 19 at Viroqua, Wis. The UW-Madison Team C placed fourth overall, second in Jerseys, and third in oral reasons.

According to a 1999 mandate, all jurisdictions in Wisconsin must have a comprehensive land-use plan by 2010-or risk losing some local authority. While assembling the required plan is no small task, it may have become a little easier, thanks to a web-based toolkit from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

The Wisconsin Agricultural and Life Sciences Alumni Association’s Farm Technology Days picnic will be held Wed, Sept. 22 from 3:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the Bloomer Memorial Golf Course clubhouse.