The Food Research Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will receive the first Food Safety Award from the National Food Processors Association, the group announced May 27.

Forages will be the focus of the summer field day Wednesday, June 24 at the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences Marshfield Agricultural Research Station.

The new instructional greenhouse at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has received an Honor Award from the Wisconsin Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. The D. C. Smith Instructional Greenhouse has now garnered four awards in five months.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison National Agricultural Marketing Association club won the Outstanding Student Chapter Award for the second year in a row at the NAMA annual conference April 16 in Dallas, Texas. This is the first time any school has won back-to-back awards.

Reduced herbicide rates plus cultivation can be as effective as full herbicide rates, say researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A four-year study at the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences Arlington Agricultural Research Station showed that reduced rates integrated with cultivation decreased the annual weed seedbank in several tillage systems while maintaining crop yield.

University entomologists from across the corn belt have a message that may leave many farmers shaking their heads.

A series of informational events will get underway April 25 at the Farmers’ Market on the Capitol Square as part of the UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences’ celebration of the state’s 150th anniversary.

Rotational grazing may be the best of both worlds, say researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. The researchers have finished comparing the ecological effects of grassy buffer strips, woody buffer strips, continuous grazing and rotational grazing along trout streams.

The second College of Agricultural and Life Sciences Issues Forum, April 7 at the Monona Terrace Convention Center in Madison, will look at the future of animal agriculture, nationally and in Wisconsin.

Kenneth Todar, a senior lecturer in the Department of Bacteriology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will receive the 1998 Carski Foundation Distinguished Teaching Award from the American Society for Microbiology on May 20 at the society’s annual meeting in Atlanta.