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Pandemic Agriculture: Why Corona Virus Won’t be the End of Our Problems

Published on May 7, 2020
“How we combat the effects of COVID-19 on food security and safety will determine how we succeed or fail with this outbreak” - Scott Haskell, DVM, MPVM, PhD. Dr. Haskell teaches the online course, Animal Health, World Trade, and Food Safety.
Hardening off vegetable transplants is easy!

Published on May 7, 2020
Help your vegetable seedlings adapt to their new garden home with the hardening off process.
Expect temporary changes in the meat case

Published on May 7, 2020
The meat case is likely to look different for a period of time due to supply chain disruptions caused by the novel coronavirus, the virus that causes the infectious disease COVID-19.
Historically low temperature effects on early planted soybeans and soybean planting decisions

Published on May 7, 2020
Learn how the predicted low temperatures will affect planted soybean fields and soybean planting decisions over the next five days.
Nearly 700 participated in Charrettes Go Virtual webinar by NCI and FBCI

Published on May 7, 2020
On April 28, NCI and FBCI partnered on a webinar focused on Charrettes Go Virtual: Missoula, Montana Hosts an Online Charrette to Advance a Community Vision. It's part of a new webinar series on virtual engagement.
Rwanda’s coffee harvest will go forward despite pandemic – at a safe distance

Published on May 7, 2020
Rwanda will continue to move forward with its May coffee harvest after in the face of the global pandemic.
Freezing temperatures likely across Michigan

Published on May 7, 2020
Cold outbreak brings prolonged freeze risk.
Southwest Michigan field crop update – May 7, 2020

Published on May 7, 2020
Warmer and drier weather has given farmers the opportunity to prepare fields and plant, but the approaching cold snap should put a halt to spraying and planting operations.
Rita Chen receives 2020 PAA Young Alumni Award

Published on May 7, 2020
Rita Chen is the 2020 recipient of the MSU Packaging Alumni Association Young Alumni Award.
Lesser celandine: An attractive spring weed that spreads with a vengeance

Published on May 7, 2020
Also known as fig buttercup, lesser celandine forms dense mats that outcompete shady turf and spring ephemerals.