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.

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.