Cindy Baumgartner of Plainfield, Wis. has been elected president of the Wisconsin Agricultural and Life Sciences Alumni Association. She succeeds John Brunnquell, Port Washington, Wis., who remains on the board. Succeeding Baumgartner as vice-president is Ann Groves Lloyd of Lodi, Wis.

Dairy Day at the Marshfield Agricultural Research Station will focus on research highlights and basic techniques of raising dairy calves.

In response to water quality laws passed in the 1970s, manufacturers reformulated laundry detergents to remove the phosphorus. In the near future, water quality concerns will prompt new regulations for dairy farms.

University of Wisconsin-Madison judging teams took first and fourth place at the Southern Intercollegiate Dairy Cattle Judging Contest, Sept. 30 at Memphis, Tenn. A team of Badger seniors placed third at the National Collegiate Dairy Cattle Judging Contest at World Dairy Expo in Madison.

By altering the building blocks of brazzein, a natural protein far sweeter than sugar, University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists found a couple of changes that actually made it sweeter.

The Wisconsin School for Beginning Dairy Farmers offers qualified students the chance to attend the University of Wisconsin-Madison Farm and Industry Short Course, special training sessions, seminars in the management of grazing-based dairy farms, farm internships, mentoring by experienced graziers and UW faculty, classroom and field experience, and the potential for future support and training.

University of Wisconsin-Madison judging teams took first and second place at the Accelerated Genetics 7th Annual Midwest Intercollegiate Dairy Cattle Judging Contest, held Sept. 17 at Viroqua, Wis.

Larry L. Borchert of Madison, Howard W. Bremer of Madison, John E. Gherty of White Bear Lake, Minn., John J. Hansen of Onalaska, and Bernie L. Staller of Zionsville, Ind. will receive Honorary Recognition awards Oct. 26 from the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

It’s September in Wisconsin – time for the last hot summer days, the first football games and the peak of wasp season.

Alumni of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences will hold two scholarship fundraisers in connection with the UW-Madison’s football game against Cincinnati.