The dairy price support system will end after 1999, and the dairy industry currently has no replacement to deal with downside price risks after supports are gone. Exports could be one important replacement, says Bill Dobson, a professor in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics.

At the Gamma Sigma Delta banquet April 23, the following people received awards for excellence in teaching, research, advising and extension/outreach:

Recent outbreaks in western Wisconsin and Georgia have added more lines to the rap sheet of E. coli O157:H7. The Wisconsin case was traced to contaminated cheese curds. In the Georgia outbreak, a child with diarrhea apparently tainted the kiddie pool at a water park, and children got sick after swallowing pool water.

Young people interested in dairy farming have until Aug. 3 to apply for an innovative program, now in its fourth year, to help them establish their own grass-based dairy farms in Wisconsin.

Milking parlor clean-in-place systems are about to get some needed design and control guidelines, thanks to studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Milking Research and Instruction Lab.

J. Duain (Dewey) Moore, emeritus professor of plant pathology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, died unexpectedly June 6, 1998 at Door County (Wis.) Memorial Hospital. He was 84 years old.

Scientists have established a unique population of pigs that can help heart disease research. A recent study, published in the American Journal of Medical Genetics, strengthens the claim that these particular swine are an exceptional animal model of human coronary artery disease.

Wisconsin farmers lead the nation in silage production, producing more than 10 million tons per year. Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison aims to improve the nutritional value of that cow chow. Jim Coors, a corn breeder in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, has identified exotic corn inbreds that have high nutritional values as silage. One of these inbred families, from Uruguay, could significantly increase the nutritional quality above levels now available in commercial hybrids.

Five tours will highlight the latest in crops and soils research at Agronomy Field Day, Wednesday, July 1 at the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences Arlington Agricultural Research Station. The field day is being held in conjunction with the Farm Progress Hay Expo, and a number of machinery manufacturers will be demonstrating their equipment.

The Wisconsin student branch of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers captured first place in the first ASAE National 1/4 Scale Tractor Student Design Competition, held May 30-31 in the Quad Cities area.