The Wisconsin 4-H team placed fifth overall out of 23 teams at the North American International Livestock Exposition 4-H Youth Dairy Cattle Judging Contest, held Nov. 7 at Louisville, Kentucky.

Compared with established dairy farmers, new dairy farmers in Wisconsin are much less likely to be taking over the farm from their parents, and they’re more likely to use off-farm income to supplement their farm income, according to researchers with the Program on Agricultural Technology Studies at UW-Madison’s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.

High school students and their parents are invited to the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to find out if they might like to attend the Farm and Industry Short Course.

The Wisconsin School for Beginning Market Gardeners, part of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Farm and Industry Short Course, is offering a comprehensive three-day course detailing the operation of a fresh produce business. In addition, the School is offering a two-day special-topic workshop on welding for vegetable growers.

The Wisconsin Soybean Marketing Board and the University of Wisconsin-Madison are continuing their offer of one free soil test per farm to help Wisconsin soybean growers monitor their fields for the soybean cyst nematode.

Dairy Day, Dec. 2 at the Marshfield Agricultural Research Station, will focus on milking equipment, milker health and udder health.

The Department of Dairy Science in the UW-Madison’s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences is expanding its curriculum options for 1999 with the addition of a Dairy Enterprise Management specialization program.

Owners of small businesses can compete with mass discount marketers. The key to success?

The Land Tenure Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has been awarded $2.5 million for research and technical assistance in two regions of the world. The LTC, a global resource institution promoting equitable access to land, begins its advisory work on new projects in Zimbabwe, in southern Africa, and in Trinidad and Tobago, in the Caribbean. Each project builds on the Center’s extensive experience with land reform and land administration in these regions.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison dairy cattle judging team took first place in oral reasons for the 13 time in the past 19 years at the National Intercollegiate Dairy Cattle Judging Contest, Sept. 28 at World Dairy Expo in Madison. The team placed fifth overall among 27 teams, and placed first in Ayrshires, second in Milking Shorthorns, third in Guernseys, and fifth in Holsteins and Brown Swiss.