College of Agriculture & Natural Resources

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  East Michigan vegetable update – June 5, 2019

  Published on June 5, 2019
  Looking forward to drying conditions!

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  Toyota 4-H20 Project educates youth in water quality

  Published on October 13, 2009
  Youth from six Michigan counties are learning water quality education with the Toyota 4-H2O Community Project.

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  Where can I learn more about how to grow this crop?

  Published on April 4, 2023
  Greenhouse growers can use reference books and websites to find crop production information, including environmental and fertility/substrate management recommendations.

• Try, try again: Lessons learned from success and failure in participatory modeling

  Published on February 14, 2019
  Participatory modeling can be a powerful approach that builds collective knowledge and social capital, thus helping communities to take charge of their future and address complex social and environmental problems.

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  Northwest Michigan fruit update – May 28, 2019

  Published on May 28, 2019
  We gained growing degree days in warmer conditions over the weekend, but averages are still well behind normal. Tart cherry bloom is underway and apple blossoms are opening.

• RFP From Gates Foundation

  Published on April 16, 2014
  There is a new request for proposals from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation that may be of interest to our host country collaborators or PIs: the Program for Emerging Agricultural Research Leaders.

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  Tall Timber: The Future of Cities in Wood | Mass Timber

  The traveling exhibition TALL TIMBER: The Future of Cities in Wood was exhibited at 719 Griswold in Downtown Detroit.

• Publications | KBS Long-Term Agroecosystem Research

• SUSTAINABILITY -- Telecoupling Research: The First Five Years

  Published on February 21, 2019
  A systematic review of the first five years of telecoupling research to evaluate the state of telecoupling science and identify strengths, areas to be improved, and promising avenues for future study.

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  Michigan vegetable crop report – June 4, 2025

  Published on June 4, 2025
  Warm-season crops were hating life this last week, but here comes the sun.

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  Australian scholar sets groundwork for international irrigation partnership

  Published on April 22, 2020
  MSU, University of Southern Queensland building memorandum of understanding for collaboration

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  What’s on the menu for 2022? Covid-19? Listeria? Salmonella? E. coli?

  Published on January 15, 2022
  The year 2021 was a long year, not just for Covid-19, but also for listeria outbreaks in the US. Haskell and DeAngelo review the regulations currently in place to help control listeria outbreaks.

• Flint water crisis: Hearing the community's concerns

  Published on February 22, 2018
  Steven Gray, an assistant professor in the MSU Department of Community Sustainability, conducted a series of sessions in which Flint residents could share their concerns and ideas for potential solutions.

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  MSU-led international research team receives $1 million grant to build multi-disciplinary precision livestock farming network

  Published on February 28, 2021
  Building a multi-disciplinary livestock farming network is the focus of a new $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Data Science for Food and Agricultural Systems program.

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  Yesterday's silk road could be tomorrow's environmental superhighway

  Published on November 9, 2016
  China's Belt and Road Initiative, a modern upgrade of the ancient Silk Road, could be a superhighway of environmental progress, according to a MSU AgBioResearch professor in this month's edition of Ecosystem Health & Sustainability.

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  Emerging Farmer Learning Series: Diving into Business Operations, Legal, Financing and More

  Published on February 11, 2026
  All are welcome to join this free, 7-week webinar series exploring key business skills for Michigan growers with speakers from across the state. This series is facilitated by the Michigan Good Food Fund and CRFS.

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  West central Michigan tree fruit update – May 14, 2024

  Published on May 14, 2024
  Sweet cherry fruitlets are out of the shuck. Apple tree bloom is lingering across the region.

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  Cropping Up

  Published on July 24, 2015
  Interest in cover crops is surging, but integration on farms remains extremely low. Researchers are examining the benefits of cover crop implementation.