On Thursday, May 2, the College of Agricultural Sciences and Agricultural Experiment Station celebrated the annual CAS/AES Awards to celebrate employees and students for their outstanding accomplishments over the last year.
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The 2024 International Livestock Forum brought together industry leaders, faculty, and students to discuss the global impact of Colorado agriculture.
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CSU will host a series of vision talks with global thought leaders who will share their research and vision for improved resilience and sustainability in agriculture.
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The sale runs Saturday, Dec. 2 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Monday Dec. 4 from 3-6 p.m.
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The weeklong celebration brings new and old friends together to honor CSU’s agricultural roots, welcome people to the table, and look ahead to the future.
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Jana McKenzie, FASLA, Principal Landscape Architect, will be the alumni speaker at this year’s Merlyn James Paulson Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning Lecture at Colorado State University.
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Colorado State University has announced the appointment of Lauren Gifford as the new associate director of the Soil Carbon Solutions Center.
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Colorado State University invites the public to vote on their favorite flowers from this year’s blooms during Public Evaluation Day at the CSU Flower Trial Garden.
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More than 1,750 FFA students from around the state competed in the Colorado Career Development Events, hosted at Colorado State University’s Fort Collins campus.
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Join us for a series of educational evenings with horticulture experts from across our community.
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Winners from the 2022 evaluation are now available at area nurseries and garden centers for the 2023 home gardening season.
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The annual college awards ceremony honors the outstanding achievements of faculty, staff and students and elevates the impact their work has on agriculture.
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CSU’s Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture is hosting a series of mixers – “Come to the Table with HLA” – to promote Colorado’s horticulture and landscape industry.
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Registration is open for AB581: Exploring Colorado Agricultural Systems.
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Organized by the CSU Student Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects, the 30th annual LA Days program features five speakers at the cutting edge of the profession and represents the broad spectrum of scale and scope that constitutes contemporary practice in landscape architecture.
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The Alpha Gamma Rhodeo will take place Thursday, April 13 from 4-8 p.m. at the AGR house on 705 South Shields St.
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After three seasons growing in the challenging conditions of the Rocky Mountains, eight perennial plants have been named “Top Performers” by researchers at Colorado State University.
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Each speaker will discuss the cutting-edge approaches they are taking to understand the process of plant adaptation and better exploit it in crop breeding for improved resilience and sustainability in agriculture.
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On January 17, the College of Agricultural Sciences welcomed Chris Pires as the new department head for Soil and Crop Sciences.
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The Department of Animal Sciences at Colorado State University has announced Marlin Eisenach and Leann Saunders as the recipients of their annual Livestock Leader Award.
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Three new projects from the College of Agricultural Sciences will make their home at CSU Spur, Colorado State University’s new public-facing campus at Denver’s National Western Center.
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The annual Merlyn James Paulson Lecture will feature alumni to share their expertise in landscape architecture and environmental planning.
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Colorado State University invites the public to vote on their favorite flowers from this year’s blooms during Public Evaluation Day on Saturday, August 6 at the CSU Flower Trial Garden.
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The CSU designs, “Trolling Trees” and “Be a BEE Habitat” are two of the five designs selected from the a public call for applicants.
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The College of Agricultural Sciences is funding six research proposals in the areas of agrivoltaics and climate resiliency.
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Three graduate students and one post-doctoral fellow from the College of Agricultural Sciences have been selected as Sustainability Leadership Fellows by CSU’s School of Global Environmental Sustainability.
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The 2022 gardening season is almost upon us. If you want to know what flowers to plant this growing season, a list of great possibilities comes from Colorado State University’s Annual Flower Trial Garden.
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A Colorado State University study suggests that adding legumes to crop rotations can help rebuild healthy soils.
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After three seasons growing in the challenging conditions of the Rocky Mountains, eight perennial plants have been named “Top Performers” by researchers at Colorado State University.
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CSU researcher Davina Rhodes is investigating genetic approaches to improving the nutritional quality of sorghum, a staple cereal crop for millions of people around the world.
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The researchers are testing an emerging gene-silencing technology for controlling herbicide-resistant weeds.
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The 29th annual LA Days program features five speakers representing the diversity of landscape architecture.
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The team is developing materials that function as chemical sorbents, similar to sponges, for the precise removal and recovery of certain nutrients from municipal and agricultural wastewater.
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Over the last several months, a CSU research team has teamed with Woodwell Climate Research Center on a Colorado-based project aimed at helping managers of rangelands, which cover large areas of both public and private lands, understand and monitor the delicate carbon balances across their grazed landscapes.
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Upending long-held theories, CSU researchers offer new insights into the role of polyphenols in the soil microbiome.
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CSU is a founding partner in a $110 million U.S. Department of Energy research network, the National Alliance for Water Innovation, focused on treatment and reuse technologies for wastewater, seawater and other untapped sources.
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Researchers aim to turn the tide against the fungus Cytospora, which for decades has wreaked havoc among peach orchards across the Western Slope.
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From the time he was growing up in Longmont, Colorado, Forrest Wold-McGimsey was drawn to Colorado State University’s renowned plant breeding and genomics program.
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The International Weed Genomics Consortium, comprising 17 academic partners across seven countries, assembles a global community of experts who will develop genomic tools that fundamentally advance humanity’s approach to weeds and crops.
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Nearly a year of social distancing and economic disruptions has triggered both subtle and seismic shifts in how Americans are buying or getting food, and researchers from the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics have documented those shifts.
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The model demonstrates potential risks and worst-case scenarios COVID-19 poses for the fire management community.
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The researchers will also examine shifts in school-based emergency food service provisions resulting from COVID-19 shutdowns.
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Following four straight years of below-average numbers for the winged creatures, the insect should be noticeably more abundant in 2020 across Colorado.
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McKay is being recognized for “distinguished contributions using ecophysiology, genetics and genomics to understand the fundamental mechanisms which have driven the evolution of phenotypes in natural populations and cultivated species.”
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The study is evaluating whether integrating solar panels on farms would be a cost benefit to farmers and growers.
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Last fall, the CoAXium Wheat Production System became commercially available to farmers in Colorado, where more than 2 million acres of wheat grows across the eastern plains.
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CSU researchers will continue exploring best practices for strong, disease-resistant potato crops in Colorado and beyond.
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