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RFID Tags: Frivolous or Beneficial to Producers?

During the summer months of 2020, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) allocated funds to purchase up to eight million radio frequency identification (RFID) ear tags for cattle and bison, providing the new …

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Exploring specialty cut flowers for profit in Wyoming

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Keeping it colorful

Specialty cut flower production is an opportunity to add valuable commodities for Wyoming growers, serve local economies, and diversify Wyoming’s economic base with horticultural crops.

Flower production can also provide biological benefits by providing nutrition and shelter …

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Prairie dogs – Keystone species or calamity?

Prairie dogs woven into Thunder Basin Grasslands Ecosystem detrimental to ranching if too many, but too few and dependent wildlife disappear.

Black-tailed prairie dogs are one of the most charismatic and conflict-ridden critters you will ever meet.Prairie dog on white background looking at camera

Their charisma comes …

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Peers honor southeastern Wyoming extension educator

Strong leadership, programming, work ethic and commitment to clients has earned a southeastern extension educator in agriculture and horticulture the Wyoming Association of County Agriculture Agent’s Outstanding Educator award.

Brian Sebade, based in Albany County, has been working with UW …

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One Step Away From Wild

First-grains project seeks to grow niche industries, boost Wyoming farmers and our rural economy

Wyoming has the least number of food processing facilities in the nation.

Given our climate, low population, and distance from markets, this might not seem surprising; …

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Change is Challenging (but normal)

By Elizabeth Martinez

When we graduate from high school, we have this idea that we are supposed to know exactly what we are going to do in college. In my last three and a half years of being in college, …

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A college anchored in its regional agriculture

The French idea of Terroir describes the uniqueness of soils, climate and culture resulting in a regional set of agricultural techniques, production methods, and products. While the notion is not often exported beyond France, except in the

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