College of Agriculture & Natural Resources

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  David Jukes

  Subject Matter Expert, Food Regulation in the European Union
  

• Other news from Diagnostic Services

  Published on May 5, 2006
  

• Consider early season mite control on chestnuts in high pressure sites

  Published on April 26, 2013
  Chestnut growers who observed high mite populations in 2012 should consider dormant oil applications to reduce damage in the coming season.

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  Potato leafhoppers and mites on the rise in chestnut

  Published on July 13, 2016
  Potato leafhopper numbers are up and European red mites are visible in Michigan chestnut orchards.

• East Michigan fruit regional report – July 26, 2016

  Published on July 26, 2016
  Drought conditions continue across the region. Harvest continues for blueberries and early Japanese plum varieties. Spotted wing Drosophila trap catch numbers are building.

• Student Research Position (Dilley Mentorship Fellowship Program)

  Employment type: Seasonal
  Application Due Date: September 20, 2024
  

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  Lauren H. Brown

  Professor Emeritus
  

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  Andrey Guber, Ph.D.

  Professor - Soil physics, soil hydrology and modeling water flow, solute and microbial transport in soils.
  akguber@msu.edu
  517-353-0269
  

• Susceptibility of commercial Michigan plum cultivars to spotted wing Drosophila

  Published on September 27, 2017
  Based on our most recent survey of spotted wing Drosophila (SWD) susceptibility in Michigan peach cultivars, we have new information for growers on cultivar susceptibility and management strategies.

• Chestnuts: Growing a food crop and an industry in Michigan

  Published on February 8, 2013
  Michigan’s edible sweet chestnut growers lead the nation in number of acres in production.

• June 2025 Michigan Beekeeping Office Hours Webinar

  Published on June 2, 2025

  Not sure what to do with your honey bee colonies this month? Want to hear about seasonal beekeeping management in Michigan? Review the webinar recording from Michigan State University Apiculture Team's Michigan Beekeeping Office Hours Webinar!

• Co-creation of socio-ecological systems knowledge to adopt an Ecosystem-based Approach and Land-Sea Interactions in maritime spatial planning

  Published on May 1, 2024
  The European Union (EU) Directive on maritime spatial planning (MSP) (2014/89/EU) requires EU coastal states to design maritime spatial plans to coordinate maritime actions in a sustainable manner. In Finland, MSP is the joint responsibility of autho...

• Detecting temporal changes in the extent of High Nature Value farmlands: The case-study of the Entre-Douro-e-Minho Region, Portugal

  Published on March 1, 2020
  In the European Union, the socio-ecological systems underlying the maintenance of low-intensity farming systems supporting the occurrence of several species and habitats are known as High Nature Value farmlands (HNVf).Detecting trends of change in th...

• Opportunities to Capitalize on Transylvanian Wood Pastures through Nature-Based Tourism: A Case Study of Viscri Village, Brasov County, Romania

  Published on April 1, 2024
  European wood-pastures are complex socio-ecological systems, valuable from ecological and cultural perspectives. Over time, they have gone through a decline in area coverage due to overgrazing, abandonment of traditional agricultural practices or the...

• A matter of scales: Does the management of marine recreational fisheries follow the ecosystem approach to fisheries in Europe?

  Published on November 1, 2018
  European policy-makers are increasingly aware of the ecological and socioeconomic relevance of marine recreational fisheries (MRF), but there are still gaps in, the information needed to achieve sustainable management. How is the current management o...

• Murradambirra Dhangaang make food secure: Aboriginal community and stakeholder perspectives on food insecurity in urban and regional Australia.

  Published on January 1, 2022
  Background It is widely acknowledged that the invasion by colonial powers of the Australian continent had profound and detrimental impacts on Aboriginal Communities, including food security. Policies of successive governments since European arrival h...

• The role of private landowners for generating cultural ecosystem services in Mediterranean rural landscapes: a case study in Andalusia Spain

  Published on February 6, 2025
  More than 60% of the European population lives in areas considered rural. In many cases, this rural population has been consolidating cultural landscapes regarded as socio-ecological systems preserving traditional agrarian practices and biocultural d...

• Making the best of both worlds: Can high-resolution agricultural administrative data support the assessment of High Nature Value farmlands across Europe?

  Published on January 1, 2017
  Worldwide, the role of farmlands for biodiversity conservation and the delivery of multiple ecosystem services has been widely acknowledged. In the European Union (EU), societal demands to include environmental conservation concerns within the Common...