For the fourth straight year, Wisconsin will lead the nation with a cranberry harvest forecast at 2.4 million barrels of the tart, native fruit. From Tomah to Manitowish Waters the colorful harvest means income and jobs. Cranberries are the state’s most valuable fruit crop, with the 1997 crop valued at $162 million.

Of all the eye-catching features in UW-Madison’s new biochemistry building, visitors might start at their feet, with the mosaic of swirling shapes sealed into the lobby floor.

Joseph Buongiorno, a University of Wisconsin-Madison forest economist, will be the first individual to receive the Award in Forest Science from the Society of American Foresters. He will be honored at the group’s 1998 national convention in Traverse City, Mich. on Sept. 20.

This fall the University of Wisconsin-Madison will complete its new biochemistry building. The Department of Biochemistry has a storied history. Researchers there discovered vitamin A, the B vitamins, treatments for anemia and rickets, and both coumadin to prevent unwanted blood clots and Warfarin to kill rats.

The Corn Silage Field Day scheduled for September 4, 1998 at the Spooner Station has been cancelled.

The University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives and Cooperative Development Services of Madison have selected five innovative cooperative development projects for special technical assistance.

A new publication series will document the economic, environmental and societal benefits offered by Land Information and Geographic Information Systems technology. The Land Information Bulletin is published by the Land Information & Computer Graphics Facility at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

The Upper Midwest, and other primarily manufacturing-milk regions, would gain under milk marketing order deregulation and the proposed Option 1b differentials, says a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor.

A concoction of beneficial bacteria in crunchy clusters of cookie bits has earned a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison food science students an invitation to a national product-development competition.

At one-day training conferences April 2 in Eau Claire and April 3 in Madison, the University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives and Cooperative Development Services will highlight some of the country’s most innovative cooperative development strategies.