John and Pete Kappelman’s contributions to the signature industry in America’s Dairyland have earned them the Honorary Recognition Award from the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

A new milk pricing system, slated to go into effect Oct. 1, has been delayed as dairy producers in states opposed to the new system convinced a federal judge to delay implementation.

People interested in starting grass-based dairy farms won’t have to travel long distances to learn from current graziers and other grass-based dairy specialists. A Distance Education project based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences will allow students to “meet” with the experts at county UW-Extension offices and on their home computers. The seminar will be taught at the Animal Sciences building on the CALS campus, with audio and synchronized PowerPoint visuals transmitted over the Internet to county offices and home PCs.

Food chemists John Lucey and Leslie Plhak have joined the Department of Food Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.

For more than a decade now, Wisconsin’s dairy farmers have seen and heard a great deal about the trend toward larger operations. Some farmers want no part of a major expansion. Others look at their old barns and wonder if there’s a reasonable way to move to a larger operation without spinning out of control financially.

Larry Satter, a dairy nutritionist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the USDA Dairy Forage Research Center, has received the 1999 Award of Honor from the American Dairy Science Association. The award, which is the highest honor given by the ADSA, recognized Satter’s exceptional and long-term contributions to the group.

Farmers looking for both high yield and high quality forage during the year they establish legumes might consider annual ryegrass or festulolium as companion crops, according to a University of Wisconsin Madison study in central and northwestern Wisconsin.

As Congress considers enlarging interstate dairy compacts, a new study by three University of Wisconsin-Madison agricultural economists labeled the compacts “bad public policy.”

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.