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Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service retweeted
The heat and lack of rain continues to speed harvest of rice, corn and soybeans, but farmers are feeling the cost of rising diesel as they run those combines.
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Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service retweeted
Soybean harvest is on a roll in White County, Arkansas.
Thanks to @AR_Extension's Katie Douglass for the video!
Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service retweeted
The application period is officially open for the Foresters for the Future Scholarship!
This scholarship awards $4,000 per semester for four years to an incoming freshman pursuing a forestry degree at UAM’s College of Forestry, Agriculture, and Natural Resources. Recipients also gain valuable, hands-on experience through paid internships with the Department.
Applications are due June 1. Learn more and apply here: uamont.edu/academics/CFANR/f…
Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service retweeted
A week ago we held our spring commencement in Barnhill Arena. Check out our FB photo album: redirme.com/9gn2qn
Recording: youtube.com/watch?v=03RygeZ-…
#uark26 #BumpersGrads
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Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service retweeted
After a 35-year career in food production, Craig Bacon is bringing his love of teaching and research to @UArkansas as its next food science department head. Read more: aaes.uada.edu/news/bacon-to-… @AginArk @bumperscollege @AR_Extension
ALT Craig Bacon portrait.
Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service retweeted
Finding amount of storm-washed sediment entering Brush Creek was goal of a recent study by #WaterQuality scientist Shannon Speir & students; testing biochar-amended poultry litter to reduce nutrient runoff: redirme.com/46gaur
#watershed #biochar
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Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service retweeted
Flavorful, seedless grape breeding is on the fast track thanks to validation of a new genetic ID method. Learn more: aaes.uada.edu/news/grape-phe…
@AginArk @uarkhort @bumperscollege @AgIsAmerica @USDA_NIFA @USDA_ARS @CornellBiotech @GalloFamily @gardensalive @ASHS_Hort
#JASHS #PlantScience
ALT Muscadine grapes on the vine.
ALT Margaret Worthington portrait.
ALT Isabella Vaughn taking tissue samples of grape leaves.
Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service retweeted
This, next week: ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Registration link to attend virtually if you cannot attend in person: uada.zoom.us/.../register/WN…
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Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service retweeted
Ali Ubeyitogullari will present “Transforming Worthless Rice Husks Into Valuable Materials," a free webinar hosted March 18 by @ARAllianceOrg, on research his team has done to make #biodegradable materials out of #rice husks. Read more: aaes.uada.edu/news/webinar-w… @AginArk @bumperscollege @UofA_Engr #ResearchMatters
ALT Ali Ubeyitogullari working in his lab.
Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service retweeted
The Center for Human Nutrition offers tips on how to best increase your #protein intake for the updated recommendations in the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Read more: aaes.uada.edu/news/protein-n… @AginArk @AR_Extension @bumperscollege
ALT Jamie Baum in lab.
ALT Sydney Boudrey interviewing a boy.
Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service retweeted
Genetic mapping of native and invasive rice stink bugs offers clues to curb insecticide resistance. Read more: aaes.uada.edu/news/rice-stin…
@AginArk @ArkansasEPP @bumperscollege @UF_IFAS @NickBateman @AR_Extension
ALT A rice stink bug (Oebalus pugnax) on a sunflower plant. (Photo by Russ Ottens/University of Georgia)
ALT Allen Szalanski in office.
ALT Rich Adams in office.
ALT Nick Bateman in field.
Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service retweeted
Cengiz Koparan, asst. prof. of precision agriculture technology, worked with Akwasi Tagoe, a graduate student in the Department of Agricultural Education, Communications and Technology, to develop a system for measuring flower density using a camera-equipped drone. Read more: aaes.uada.edu/news/uavs-blac… @AginArk @aect.uark @UarkBENG @uarkhorticulture @bumperscollege @AgIsAmerica
ALT Cengiz Koparan in his lab.
ALT Cengiz Koparan and Akwasi Tagoe at computer.
Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service retweeted
Muscadines, cover crops, cattle, poultry and pigs rounded out our final Arkansas Agricultural Research Report for 2025. Check out our December newsletter at aaes.uada.edu/news/december-…
We're looking forward to seeing what other exciting innovations and discoveries come in 2026!
@AginArk @bumperscollege
Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service retweeted
Congratulations, Prof. John Rupe on your retirement! Join us Dec. 10 at the @UArkansas Mullins Library Event Space to celebrate his 41-year career as a plant pathologist with international recognition. Read more at aaes.uada.edu/news/john-rupe… @AginArk @ArkansasEPP @bumperscollege
ALT John Rupe speaking
ALT John Rupe at a field day speaking to a group on a trailer
ALT John Rupe's UADA portrait.
Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service retweeted
Scientists testing biodegradable microneedle pain patches in pigs w/ @USDA_NIFA support found the dose was too low, but the concept works with no adverse reactions. Read more at aaes.uada.edu/news/microneed… @AginArk @AgIsAmerica @AnimalScienceUA @UMBC
ALT Robin Cheek, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Animal Science, helps Jeremy Powell, a veterinarian and professor in the department, apply a microneedle pain patch to a pig.
ALT Jorge Almodovar portrait
ALT Graphic of artistic rendering showing location of pain patches on pigs at the ear and the neck with a microscopic rendering of micro needles resembling small pyramids.
Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service retweeted
Law students — here’s your chance to dive into ag law in D.C.!
The Scott E. Fancher Agricultural Law & Policy Fellowship places a 2L student at NASDA Headquarters in Arlington, VA for summer 2026.
🗓️ Application deadline: January 5, 2026
📍 Full-time | $25/hr. | Summer 2026
📧 Apply by sending materials to [email protected]
Learn more about this incredible opportunity from the National Agricultural Law Center and @NASDAnews / @NASDAFoundation here:
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Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service retweeted
Eight active & 14 overall faculty, scientists, researchers in Bumpers College among U of A group listed as top-cited researchers in the world in annual ranking; from #CropScience, #entomology, #FoodScience & #PoultryScience: t.ly/O2XUe 👍
#AgFoodLife
Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service retweeted
Donnie Smith, former CEO of Tyson Foods, was the inaugural speaker in the Fryar Price Risk Management Center of Excellence's Future of Arkansas Agriculture and Beyond series. Read our story and find a link to the full recording of the presentation: aaes.uada.edu/news/fryar-cen…
@AginArk @bumperscollege @uarkaeab
ALT Donnie Smith speaking
ALT Ed Fryar, Lanier Nalley, Terry and Donnie Smith and Deacue Fields.
Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service retweeted
Following in his father's footsteps, assistant professor of poultry nutrition Benjamin Parsons investigates how nutrient availability in feed ingredients impacts flock performance.
Even small improvements, Benjamin said, can lead to millions in savings.
@UApoultrysci
Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service retweeted
Come support @uarkhort students and get high-quality poinsettias on Dec. 4-5 at the Hort Greenhouse, 1005 W Meade St., Fayetteville, AR 72703. The sale runs from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on both days or until supplies run out. Learn more: news.uark.edu/articles/80415… @bumperscollege
ALT Rows of poinsettia plants extending into the distance under a greenhouse roof
ALT Close up on bright red and green poinsettia plants