A $2 million gift from William F. Heckrodt to the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will be used to establish a program of fiber-crops research.

Scholarships worth $40,000 will be awarded to students attending the Farm and Industry Short Course at the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences this year.

Two people will be honored April 7 for applying the

Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk has announced a wrap-up meeting for the Dane County Land Use Workshop series that ended last month. The four-part workshop series brought hundreds of Dane County citizens together to discuss options for improving the way Dane County is growing. The session will be Wednesday, March 11 from 7:30 to 9 a.m. at the Dane County Expo Center.

Farmers who only see $$$ when they look at a dense, green soybean stand in July may not know that white mold can ruin such a field in August. The healthiest looking fields are often at greatest risk.

Shock waves from the Asian economic crisis will ripple through Wisconsin’s farm economy, with corn and soybean producers feeling the worst effects during 1998 and 1999, according to a University of Wisconsin-Madison economist. Wisconsin’s dairy industry won’t be hit nearly as hard as grain and livestock producers, according to William Dobson, an agricultural economist at UW-Madison’s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.

Elton D. Aberle, head of the animal sciences department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, was named Feb. 20, 1998, as dean of the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences by Chancellor David Ward.

The Fourth Great Lakes Dairy Sheep Symposium will be held at the Badgerland Area Civic Center in Spooner, Wis., June 26-27, 1998.

Critics charge that the New Zealand Dairy Board distorts trade, hurts U.S. milk producers, and uses its monopoly exporting status to disadvantage its competitors. However, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor says that many of these complaints are based on questionable assertions regarding the board and its practices.

The Land Information & Computer Graphics Facility at UW-Madison’s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences is helping to map the future of Dane County – literally. Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk is hosting a series of public workshops designed “to listen to citizens throughout Dane County as they discuss their concerns about our growth.” LICGF staff are providing technical assistance, presenting various maps, and are conducting land use mapping exercises throughout the workshop series. The next workshop will be at the Dane County Forum, Feb. 10 from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.