Sunn hemp (Crotalaria juncea) was grown for the first time in Wyoming in early July 2016, drilled into bone-dry powder in dryland ground at the James C. Hageman Sustainable Agriculture Research and Extension Center (SAREC) near Lingle.
Unfortunately, …
Conducting research that improves the land, and the lives of people who depend upon that land, is part of the mission of land-grant universities such as the University of Wyoming.
This has been traditionally accomplished in a researcher-driven model in …
Efforts at University of Wyoming since 2005 evolve to combine basic gene discovery approaches with novel vaccine platforms
Brucellosis can cause elk, bison, and cattle to abort their fetuses, associated with a high risk of transmission after an animal has …
Food shortages and panic at the grocery stores in response to the COVID‑19 pandemic have begun to change the way average grocery consumers think about sourcing their food.
As small ag producers know, there isn’t really a shortage of food, …
Recreational Off-highway Vehicles (ROVs) – side-by-sides or UTVs – have become increasingly popular for many uses including recreation, construction, and agriculture.
Their versatility makes them a great tool for farms and ranches. Often, they are chosen over ATVs because, in …
Sainfoin (SAN-foyn) is a perennial legume that boasts high nutrition, drought tolerance, and winter hardiness.
Introduced into northern Wyoming in 1974, sainfoin, Onobrychis viciifolia, has been a management option for livestock managers and producers wanting to windrow or strip …
No one will be surprised to read farm and ranch families experience stress from a wide variety of factors, including:
1. Operational stressors (equipment breakdowns, disease outbreaks, accidents, and government regulation),
2. Environmental influences (extreme weather events, early or late …
One reality has surfaced strongly in 25 years of responding to rural disasters and emergencies.
County emergency managers do not know what agriculture producers know intuitively about livestock, crops, resources and capability in rural areas.
All that really matters when …
Global electric energy demand could be met by converting just 1 percent of cropland to solar energy production, according to a recent study from Oregon State University.
Croplands in western America, southern Africa, and the Middle East have the highest …
Operation resilience in agriculture is the ability to adapt to and recover from not only market swings, crop production variations, and climate issues, but the effects of emergencies and disasters.
Impacts hitting agriculture and rural communities often end up being …
The idea was conceived while sitting at a table drinking coffee and chatting about a recently released request for proposals funded by USAID (United States Agency for International Development) to conduct international studies in Feed the Future* countries.
We and …
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