If you fish for sport, you want a trout or bass that puts up a fight. But if you raise fish for the frying pan, you’re better off with fish that are more laid back.

With the soybean harvest near an end, now is the time to think about testing next year’s fields for the soybean cyst nematode.

Did your garden produce more than you could eat or give away last summer? Have you wondered what it would take to turn your vegetable-growing skills into a small business? The Wisconsin School for Beginning Market Gardeners, to be held Jan. 18 to Jan. 20 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, can provide some answers.

Wisconsin 4H dairy cattle judging teams won the National and North American International Livestock Exposition youth dairy cattle judging contests this fall. This marks the first time Wisconsin has won both contests in the same year. The Wisconsin 4H team placed sixth at the 32nd All American Dairy Show Invitational.

High school seniors interested in studying dairy science are encouraged to apply for admission to the University of Wisconsin-Madison for the fall 2001 semester. Applications can now be submitted on-line at http://www.undergrad.cals.wisc.edu/ The deadline to apply is February 1st, 2001.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison judging team took first place at the North American International Livestock Exposition Intercollegiate Dairy Cattle Judging Contest, held Nov. 5 at Louisville, Ky.

Many crops, flowers and weeds don’t bloom their first summer. Known as biennials, these plants only flower and set seed after a prolonged period of near-freezing temperatures.

The College of Agricultural and Life Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison invites prospective students, including high school juniors and seniors, and their parents to preview what the Farm and Industry Short Course has to offer.

Applied agricultural and natural resources research in Wisconsin will get a big boost in the next four years because College of Agricultural and Life Sciences researchers and extension specialists at University of Wisconsin-Madison scored high in a new U.S. Department of Agriculture grants competition.

A research team from the University of Wisconsin-Madison is enlisting the help of hundreds of U.S. dairy producers in an effort to prevent Johne’s disease. Johne’s may be the most serious infectious disease now threatening the U.S. dairy industry.