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10 Cents a Meal Program Successes Featured on WGVU Radio

Published on January 10, 2019
The nationally-recognized 10 Cents a Meal for School Kids and Farm program celebrates its many victories on WGVU's radio show Community Sustainable Voices.
Five tips for building five key leadership skills – Part 2: Responsible citizenship

Published on January 10, 2019
Explore some quick suggestions to develop a sense of responsibility and citizenship to youth development activities.
Five tips for building five key leadership skills – Part 5: Solving problems

Published on January 10, 2019
Explore some quick suggestions to add opportunities to develop problem-solving skills during youth development activities.
Trialing deer repellents to control white-tailed deer damage to soybeans

Published on January 10, 2019
Michigan State University trialed two deer repellents, DeerPro Spring and Summer and DeerPro Ag, to see if they control deer depredation to the point of significantly protecting soybean yield.
FCWG 2018-19 Learning Exchange Series Session: Finite Carbon

Published on January 9, 2019
Speaker includes Dylan Jenkins, VP of Portfolio Development at Finite Carbon.
Spring root pruning to enhance productivity of established Bartlett pear

Published on January 9, 2019
Research funds from Gerber/Nestle provide new information on management practices for growers with established Bartlett pear acreage.
2019 Tree Fruit Management School registration and agenda now available

Published on January 9, 2019
Register by Jan. 18 to join Michigan State University Extension in Traverse City, Michigan, to learn about tree fruit horticulture, entomology and pathology.
First situation analysis of developments in the Omo-Turkana basin published

Published on January 9, 2019
The OTuRN situation analysis, a product of our 2016 workshop, was published by Ambio online in January 2019, and has already had 2600 downloads.
EEM Student Accepted into Demmer Scholars Program

Published on January 8, 2019
MSUAFRE student Emma Rice will be spending the summer in Washington DC as a 2019 Demmer Scholar.
Landscape Architecture senior receives $2K grant from the CANR Undergraduate Research Program to support research on erosion

Published on January 8, 2019
Amanda Wakefield, a senior majoring in Landscape Architecture at the MSU School of Planning, Design and Construction, received a $2,000 grant from the MSU College of Agriculture and Natural Resources Undergraduate Research Program fund.