Using Genetics to Manage Dairy Risk

Here's the secret of the modern dairy farm: The essential high-tech advances aren't in machinery. They're inside the cow.

Take a cow like Claudia. She lives at Fulper Farms, a dairy farm in upstate New Jersey. Claudia is to a cow from the 1930s as a modern Ferrari is to a Model T.  Click here to read the full story.

Unclean equipment could introduce new blight into burgeoning Ark peanut crop

Tiny fungal capsules hitchhiking on harvesting equipment from other states could bring an aggressive disease to Arkansas as farmers expand peanut acreage here, say disease experts with the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture. Click here to read the full story.

Women in Agriculture Educators National Conference

The 2012 Women in Agriculture Educators National Conference will take place at The Peabody in downtown Memphis, Tennessee.
This biennial conference features 3 keynote presentations, over 40 hours of individual concurrent session presentations, a networking reception which includes a poster session, and a pre-conference seminar. Click here to see full schedule of events and register.

New Arkansas Division of Agriculture cotton variety exceeds fiber quality expectations

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — The University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture has released a new cotton variety that exceeds current quality expectations for upland cotton. It is the second variety in the last three years from the Arkansas breeding program that raises the bar for cotton fiber quality. Click here to read the full story.

calendar of events

New calendar feature

Need to know when the next crop production meeting is? Click the new calendar of events tab on our front page to find times, locations and topics for events such as field days, production meetings, trainings and certifications. Click here to read full story.

Arkansas Corn Quick Facts

2012 Arkansas Corn Quick Facts Sheet

BY KEVIN LAWSON, PROGRAM ASSOCIATE - CORN & GRAIN SORGHUM VERIFICATION, ON DECEMBER 16TH, 2011

The Arkansas Corn Quick Facts Sheet is a handy one page reference for County Agents, producers and consultants that are looking for University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture recommendations on corn. Read more

Restoring western rangelands

The arid conditions in the southwestern United States make restoring degraded rangelands extremely difficult, but a USDA scientist has found a way to help native grasses survive there so they can be closely studied as restoration tools.Click here to read the complete article.