Research News of October 2023
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Researchers Receive NSF Funding to Continue Building a Smarter Insect Trap
University of Arkansas System researchers have received funding from the National Science Foundation’s Small Business Innovation Research program to continue development of a smart insect control system...
Division of Agriculture Works to Improve Diagnosis of Disease Affecting Turkeys
Poultry scientists with the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station are working to decrease the time and cost to diagnose an emerging disease affecting the turkey industry...
THANKSGIVING: Resilient Turkey Industry Rebounds from HPAI, Adapts to Evolving Market
Here’s one thing to be thankful for this Thanksgiving: more turkey. Enough turkey has been produced with the rebound from bird flu last year that exports have increased in 2023 and are projected to continue...
Director of Food Processing Center at the Market Center of the Ozarks Named
AFIC@MCO has a new director. “I’m really excited about the new role,” said Darryl Holliday, who joined the UADA in August. “I’m thrilled to bring my knowledge, my skill set to northwest Arkansas in ways of being able to support...
Adapting Row Crops to Climate Change a Focus of New Arkansas Ag Professor
Meteorologists use models to predict the weather. Elvis Elli uses models to predict how crops might respond to a complex and changing environment. Elli began work with the AAES in September...
Undergraduate Researchers Featured in 2023 Issue of Discovery Journal
High temperatures and disease are both serious enemies in poultry production. That led recent poultry science graduate Alessandro Rocchi to investigate the link between the two. Research such as this is important in an industry...
Researchers, Educators at Summit Share Efforts to Corral Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza
At a two-day summit hosted in one of the nation’s top poultry states, researchers and educators from across the Americas discussed efforts to find ways to manage the spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza, a disease that has cost the poultry industry millions of birds across five continents.
Entomologist studies forest health from the ground up
An agricultural economist with UADA was recently named the Southern Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Fellow, a two-year program focused on sustainable agriculture efforts nationwide...
