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Integrated Pest Management: The Most Effective Way to Manage Pests in Your School!

Rangeland Monitoring and the Parker 3-Step Method

Minimum tillage for wheat following winter vegetables

UA Engineers Build Lunar Vegetable Garden

The first extraterrestrials to inhabit the moon probably won't be little green men, but they could be little green plants.
Researchers at the University of Arizona Controlled Environment Agriculture Center, known as CEAC, are demonstrating that plants from Earth could be grown hydroponically (without soil) on the moon or Mars, setting the table for astronauts who would find potatoes, peanuts, tomatoes, peppers and other vegetables awaiting their arrival.

Lettuce Project Sprouts National Prize for UA Student

One Yuman's work in iceberg lettuce has paid off - with national recognition.

For the first time, University of Arizona-Yuma had one of their undergraduate students, Kaylee Renick, recognized at the national level for her work in agricultural research into iceberg lettuce. She received first place in the oral competition at the American Society for Horticultural Science Annual Conference in Palm Desert, Calif., with seven other students from universities around the nation.

CALS welcomed incoming Agricultural Education Department Head Bobby Torres in June. Torres earned his bachelor and masters degrees from New Mexico State University and a Doctor of Philosophy from Ohio State University. Torres served as the agriculture teacher at Willcox High School and was an agricultural education professor at New Mexico State University. Prior to becoming a Wildcat, Torres directed undergraduate and graduate studies at the University of Missouri-Columbia.

UA-Led Group Awarded $9.9M to Develop 'Super Rice'

A University of Arizona-led consortium has been awarded $9.9 million from the National Science Foundation to develop a deeper understanding of the wild relatives of cultivated rice with the ultimate goal of creating next-generation varieties that are better capable of withstanding drought and poorer soils and produce higher yields than current forms of domesticated rice.

The main goals are to study the genes of different wild rice species and identify genes that could be used to improve the crop.

New Research Technology for the Leafy Greens Industry

Doctoral Students Using Advanced Technology to Study Forests

George Ruyle Honored as Ag-100 Councils 2010 Faculty Member of the Year

Norton School Awarded $2M to Help At-Risk Youth and Families

E-xclusivity: An Introduction to Selling Luxury

Institute Professors Opinion Column Addresses Arizona

Teaching Financial Education in a Variety of Settings

Behind the Scenes of the State of the University Address
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