Donald R. Peterson, emeritus professor of agronomy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, died of a heart attack Saturday, Aug. 8 in Madison. He was 73 years old.

Michelle Miller, a Wisconsin native, has been selected by the steering committee of the Wisconsin Pesticide Use and Risk Reduction Project to coordinate its three-year effort to find alternatives to pesticides targeted by the Food Quality Protection Act.

When Wisconsin eagles and ospreys didn’t reproduce normally in the 1960s and 1970s, wildlife biologists identified the culprit – high levels of chemical contaminants in the environment and eggs.

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

You won’t have time to vegetate at this field day – you’ll be too busy checking out more than 400 unique flowers and vegetables growing in the gardens at the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences West Madison Research Station.

If you’re like most gardeners, you’re always looking for new ideas or new plants. You may find some of both Monday, Aug. 3 at the fifth annual Fruits, Flowers & Vegetables Twilight Tour at the Hancock Agricultural Research Station.

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.