The Jefferson County 4-H dairy cattle judging team placed second overall out of 14 teams at the Pennsylvania All-American Invitational 4-H Youth Dairy Cattle Judging Contest, Sept. 20 at Harrisburg, Pa.

The Wisconsin 4-H team placed fifth overall out of 23 teams at the North American International Livestock Exposition 4-H Youth Dairy Cattle Judging Contest, held Nov. 7 at Louisville, Kentucky.

Compared with established dairy farmers, new dairy farmers in Wisconsin are much less likely to be taking over the farm from their parents, and they’re more likely to use off-farm income to supplement their farm income, according to researchers with the Program on Agricultural Technology Studies at UW-Madison’s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.

High school students and their parents are invited to the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to find out if they might like to attend the Farm and Industry Short Course.

Dairy Day, Dec. 2 at the Marshfield Agricultural Research Station, will focus on milking equipment, milker health and udder health.

The Department of Dairy Science in the UW-Madison’s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences is expanding its curriculum options for 1999 with the addition of a Dairy Enterprise Management specialization program.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison dairy cattle judging team took first place in oral reasons for the 13 time in the past 19 years at the National Intercollegiate Dairy Cattle Judging Contest, Sept. 28 at World Dairy Expo in Madison. The team placed fifth overall among 27 teams, and placed first in Ayrshires, second in Milking Shorthorns, third in Guernseys, and fifth in Holsteins and Brown Swiss.

Unique proteins hidden within whey help prevent ear infections in children, improve iron absorption in infants, boost the nutritional value of foods and bring more money to farmers and whey processors, says a University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher.

When more than 30,000 of the world’s leading managers and technical experts in the food industry gather for the Worldwide Food Expo ’99 in Chicago this October, they will have the chance to taste an extraordinary new fruit smoothie made with whey protein and milk calcium. The strawberry-banana smoothie, developed at the Wisconsin Center for Dairy Research, is designed to be a good source of protein and calcium, says Kimberlee “KJ” Burrington, coordinator of the CDR’s whey applications program.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Cooperatives Library, which recently joined the Taylor-Hibbard Library in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics’ Taylor Hall, was officially dedicated as the Truman Torgerson Cooperative Collection in a ceremony held there Friday, Oct. 15.