More than 150 perch scientists from nearly 30 nations will meet July 20 to July 24 in Madison for Percis III, the third International Percid Fish Symposium. Media representatives will be admitted free of charge; please show press credentials at the registration desk.

This year”s Wisconsin Agricultural & Life Sciences Alumni Association picnic will be held at the Union Town Hall near Symco, about 6 miles west of the Wisconsin Farm Technology Days show site.

Wisconsin meat processors are invited to enter hams, sausages, bacon and snack sticks in the Wisconsin State Fair Meat Product Show.

Some students take on the same kind of challenges they’ll face in their first jobs by entering intercollegiate competitions that pit them against teams of students from around the nation and beyond.

Bruce Jones, professor of agricultural and applied economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison/Extension has been appointed director of the UW Center for Dairy Profitability. Jones served as director of the Center previously, from 1995 through 2000.

An intercollegiate contest that culminates in a tractor pull? OK, it’s a little outrageous. It’s also a lot of work, a lot of fun, and, not surprisingly, a big hit with students.

UW-Madison alum Luke Wiedenfeld has this advice for undergraduates,

The Land Tenure Center, a more than 40-year-old interdisciplinary effort to address land, poverty and environmental issues in developing countries, is coming to an end as a free-standing administrative unit on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.

This year’s Agronomy/Soils Field Day will feature a “tent show” discussion of Bt corn, along with four tours that highlight current crops and soils research. The event is scheduled for Wednesday July 9 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Arlington Agricultural Research Station.

A milk pasteurization and process control certification course will be held Aug. 19-20 at the Babcock Dairy Plant on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.