CSU Ph.D. student Harley Combs examines hydroponically grown lettuce. As water becomes increasingly scarce in the American West, a group of university and industry partners has been pursuing innovations in the largest use of this key resource: agricultural...
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. The new offerings join the college’s existing Spur programming and reflect CSU’s...
U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet tours the Agricultural Research Demonstration and Education Center (ARDEC) at Colorado State University. May 27, 2022. Photos by John Eisele/CSU From solar panels to soil science, Colorado State University’s efforts to use agriculture to help...
Rebecca Even and Angie Moore, research associates in the Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, separate soil cores by depth. Photo courtesy of Laura van der Pol. The legume family is great at fixing nitrogen, a biochemical process that moves nitrogen from the air into...
Every day, hundreds of billions of gallons of a precious, dwindling natural resource, fresh water, is used for agricultural irrigation, energy extraction and more. The demand for novel sources of clean water, in the face of a growing population and a warming planet,...
For more than two decades, Colorado State University has been at the forefront of soil carbon science. “There’s a long history of agroecosystems work here at CSU,” said Keith Paustian, University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Soil and Crop...
