The Wisconsin Agricultural and Life Sciences Alumni Association will hold its Farm Progress Days Picnic from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday, July 14. The picnic will be held at the Lancaster Agricultural Research Station, 4 miles south of Lancaster on Wisconsin Highways 35 and 81, just a few miles from the Farm Progress Days site.

Taking inventory of 275 million people may never come easy, but a UW-Madison rural sociologist is being honored for helping make it more efficient.

John Hansen of LaCrosse, founder of the Kwik Trip chain of convenience stores, and his wife, Donna, have donated $350,000 to the UW Foundation to renovate the dairy store in Babcock Hall at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

The Babcock Institute for International Dairy Research and Development received a 1999 Governor’s Export Achievement Award at the 35th annual Wisconsin International Trade Conference May 12 in Milwaukee.

Held at the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Head down, arms straight, hips in line. Breathe out. Steady swing.

Charles Vignieri of Kenosha, the late Frederick Layton of Milwaukee, Norval Dvorak of Manitowoc, and Robert F. Thayer of Madison will be inducted into the Wisconsin Meat Industry Hall of Fame at a noon luncheon May 6 at the Best Western InnTowner in Madison, Wis. (For reservation information, please call Dennis Buege, (608) 262-0555.)

Patrick Moore, a founding member of Greenpeace, will give the Roddis Lecture May 3 at 3:30 p.m. at the State Historical Society auditorium on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. His speech is entitled “Environmentalism for the 21st Century.” A reception will follow the lecture. The event is free and open to the public.

The millennium is coming, and with it a new era in how the United States oversees pesticides and other hazardous chemicals. Next year will be the first time farmers are affected by the Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA), which Congress passed unanimously in 1996.

Matt Dorshorst of Junction City and Amy Hagenow of Reedsville were named WHA Outstanding Boy and Girl at the Wisconsin Holstein Association’s Junior Holstein Convention. The convention was held in early January at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville.