Ashley Walsh never thought a career in organic farming was in the cards. Her work as an assistant director at Fox Sports kept her on the road, and she rarely gave much thought to what she ate. “I couldn’t even keep a basil plant alive,” she said. But when she was diagnosed with gastroparesis , a rar...

It’s no secret that summers are getting hotter – as are autumns, winters and springs. That can make growing cold-season crops, such as broccoli, difficult. Luckily, a team of university researchers have assembled like the Avengers to help mitigate this dilemma. Conducting a multistate evaluation of ...

Anyone considering obtaining a worker, or multiple workers, through the H-2A program may have heard that navigating the program is tedious, but the process for employers to hire workers through the program is straightforward. During the Virtual Agricultural Seminar, sponsored by the U.S. Department ...

Receiving funding through a grant is a huge honor and success, but it takes a lot of work to earn it. Going through the process of applying for a grant can be really overwhelming, but the Tri-State Extension Dairy Team hosted a webinar to make the process easier to comprehend. UVM Extension Dairy Re...

On Nov. 12, President Donald Trump signed the Congressional bill that will fund the U.S. government into the new year, ending an unprecedented 42-day government shutdown. The bill is largely a stopgap continuing resolution (CR), setting up another voting deadline for the end of January. Recent NPR c...

Over the past few years, there’s been a lot of uncertainty when it comes to the environment. With droughts, floods, fires, heat waves and other extremes, a lack of control can be completely paralyzing. Maud Powell, a professor of practice in the Small Farms Extension program at Oregon State Universi...

Not all scientific research is done in a sterile lab setting or in carefully planted test plots. Some of it is done on plates, with forks and knives. A group from Washington State University Extension – Laura Schulz, Jordan White and Carol Miles – shared their results from a study titled “Finding th...

The American palate is ever expanding, and that’s thanks in large part to the wide variety of immigrants who now call the U.S. home. In bringing the flavors of the “old country” with them, they provide new flavors and even health benefits with crops not usually seen in American fields or farm stands...

“The only way to have insect- and disease-free boxwoods is to use Buxus plasticus,” Joe Boggs joked. (Only a plastic boxwood – Buxus taxonomically – could truly be problem-free.) Boggs is an assistant professor with Ohio State University (OSU) Extension specializing in entomology. OSU, the Ohio Gree...