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News Releases

News Releases are by the Agricultural Communication Services unit of the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station (AAES).


November 2009

• British nursery receives exclusive contract to market primocane blackberries from U of A

• U of A releases third primocane-fruiting blackberry

• Arkansas Division of Agriculture hosts International Spinach Conference

• University of Arkansas places second in national poultry judging contest

October 2009

• Soils Team advances to national contest

September 2009

• Poultry 101 Workshop begins September 29

• Nitrogen soil test is technology breakthrough for agriculture, environment

August 2009

• Web videos highlight rice, soybean research in virtual field day

• ‘Something new’ the theme at crops field day

• Judd Hill Foundation field day to feature university research

• Rice millers review processing technology research

• Research station field day to focus on rice sustainability

• Herbicide resistant pigweed dominates farmers’ concerns at research field day

• Turf crowd turns out for field day at Division of Agriculture center

• High-oil soybeans in the Arkansas variety development pipeline

July 2009

• UA helps Guardsmen prepare to teach poultry basics to Afghan farmers

• Horticulture student designs ‘campus kitchen garden’

• Delta Classic UA scholarships awarded for crop and environmental science majors

• Field day to focus on resistant pigweed, insects and economics

• Resistant weeds research among rice field day topics

• UA entomologists employ biological weapon against foreign invader

• Rohwer Research Station to host bio-fuel crops field day

• Arkansas commodity exports up 49 percent in 2008

June 2009

• Mountain Home student receives national fellowship

• Poultry Science immunologist invited to participate in vitiligo road map

• Potassium important to controlling stem rot in rice

May 2009

• U of A Center of Excellence for Poultry Science provides course work for culinary certification

• Researchers address cattle producers slow adoption of fescue toxicosis solution

• Bus tour, pest clinic to highlight horticulture field day

• Organic acids, plant extracts and irradiation combine to beat the bacteria

• Graduate students offer free plant disease diagnostic service

• Tyson endows UA chair in Food Policy Economics

• Stemming the spread of rice cutgrass

• Vigor test helps determine soybean seed quality

• Windrowing can improve flock health

• Farmers' market producers invited to pest management workshops

• Bass tournament will support scholarships at U of A

April 2009

• Model cattle farm demonstrates ‘300 Days of Grazing’ system

• Apparel studies students organize 'green' fashion show for Earth Day

• Extension food scientist receives national award

• Student Awards presented at Honors Banquet

• Former ARS national program leader to head UA department

• Center of Excellence for Poultry Science hosts Short Course on Modern Poultry Production

• Field day focuses on ‘300 Days of Grazing’

• Improving food safety depends on culture change, speakers tell OFPA

• Institute of Biological Engineering inducts Verma as Fellow

March 2009

• Researchers document reduced poultry litter application in watersheds

• Conventional soybean demand may be increasing

• U of A hosts 10th annual Horse Festival March 27-28

• Cattle conference at SWREC will focus on profitability

• OFPA convention set for April 7-8

• Workshop will focus on understanding fruit diseases

February 2009

• Institute elects UA's Verma to College of Fellows

• Non-toxic fescue endophytes to benefit livestock producers

• U of A will hold workshop on soils, poultry manure, biosolids

• UA researcher receives NRI fellowship to study foodborne Salmonella

• Department of Energy Funds Arkansas Bioenergy Projects

• Carbon credits may offer farmers new income source

January 2009

• Students take over Crescent Hotel for ‘Class Act’

• Graduate student to march in Inaugural Parade representing Peace Corps

• U of A faculty, students observe massive gathering of monarch butterflies in Mexico central mountains

• Banquet of local foods open to public

• Division of Agriculture presents faculty, staff awards