The 8th annual Fruits, Flowers & Vegetables Twilight Tour will be held Monday, Aug. 13 at the Hancock Agricultural Research Station. Activities begin at 5 p.m. and end at dusk.

Whether your interests run to heirloom varieties or the latest cultivars, you’ll find plants and techniques to improve your garden at Urban Horticulture Field Day, Saturday, Aug. 18 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the West Madison Agricultural Research Station.

It’s been a rough summer for lawns — first deluge, then drought.. If you have questions about your lawn, you’ll find answers at the Home Lawn Field Day, Saturday, Aug. 18 from noon to 4 p.m. at the O.J.Noer Turfgrass Research Facility near Verona.

The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and Orkin Pest Control, with the assistance of the Henry Vilas Zoo and the Department of Entomology at the UW-Madison, are bringing an “insect road show” to Madison this week.

This year’s Agronomy Field Day, which features the latest in crops and soils research, will be held jointly with Farm Progress Hay Expo 2001. The combined events are scheduled for Wednesday, June 27 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Arlington Agricultural Research Station.

Keith Kelling, Extension soils scientist and professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has received the Robert E. Wagner Award from the Potash & Phosphate Institute. He was cited for his Extension and applied research programs, which emphasize improved efficiency of purchased nutrients and full crediting of on-farm nutrient sources.

The Wisconsin Agricultural and Life Sciences Alumni Association recently recognized 10 sophomore students currently enrolled in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences as Outstanding Sophomores. Each student will receive a $750 scholarship for use during the 2001-2002 academic school year. Applicants received the award based on academics, school and community activities, work experience and a personal interview.

A number of faculty and staff members of the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences were honored at the Gamma Sigma Delta awards banquet, April 17 at the Memorial Union on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.

To answer producers’ calls for help in dealing with current and coming environmental regulations, Discovery Farms are being recruited to provide on-farm partnerships that will help to determine cost-effective best-management practices.

A student team representing the University of Wisconsin-Madison won first place in the oral presentation category of the 2001 Academic Quadrathlon. The competition was held during the joint Midwest section annual meeting of the American Society of Animal Science and the American Dairy Science Association, March 19-21 in Des Moines, Iowa.