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Herbicide-Resistant Trait Patented in Conventional Grain Sorghum

Herbicide-Resistant Trait Patented in Conventional Grain Sorghum

Grain sorghum is widely grown in arid environments as an animal feed grain, but weedy grass control in the crop is a big challenge due to limited post-emergent herbicide options. A joint effort between the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station and Texas A&M AgriLife Research…

New Software Package Drives Deeper Understanding of Trait Evolution

New Software Package Drives Deeper Understanding of Trait Evolution

Evolution is complex and difficult to study, but a new software package developed by the AAES offers researchers a better way to simulate how organisms change over time. The new software, called TraitTrainR, builds on work in the field of comparative biology to provide an efficient and effective framework…

How Do Road Salts Impact Roadside Microorganisms?

How Do Road Salts Impact Roadside Microorganisms?

Salt is essential to keeping our roads and walkways safe when it snows. But when salt is washed off the roads, how does it impact nearby microorganisms? Water quality researcher Shannon Speir and her students have been conducting studies…

Norsworthy Honored with Rice Industry Award

Norsworthy Honored with Rice Industry Award

Jason Norsworthy’s origin story as a weed scientist began on a truck farm in south Arkansas, and was told through the unnumbered long, hot hours spent at the end of a gooseneck hoe chopping weeds…

New Probiotic Shown to Improve Digestion in Poultry and Swine

New Probiotic Shown to Improve Digestion in Poultry and Swine

A novel probiotic in both poultry and swine feed that promises to improve gut health and weight-gain efficiency may have another benefit: allowing the animals to unlock more of the nutrients of soybean in their diets. The probiotic, which is a beneficial bacterium…

Exploring New Approaches to Combat Bovine Respiratory Disease

Exploring New Approaches to Combat Bovine Respiratory Disease

It’s commonly known in the cattle industry that bovine respiratory disease is the most costly illness affecting cattle in North America. Despite extensive research and treatment efforts over the years, it continues to lead to high rates of sickness and death…

Finding a Preventative Solution to a Billion-Dollar Poultry Problem

Finding a Preventative Solution to a Billion-Dollar Poultry Problem

The poultry industry loses up to $6 billion annually due to necrotic enteritis, a preventable intestinal disease in poultry, including broiler chickens. AAES poultry science researcher is evaluating a new possible solution using a novel vaccine combined with a bile acid regimen…

Osage Ramen Fusion Dish Wins Mathis New Top Chef NWA Award

Osage Ramen Fusion Dish Wins Mathis New Top Chef NWA Award

A recipe that paid homage to the Osage Nation won Chef Roni Mathis the title of 2024 Top Chef NWA. Mathis, a chef with the Arkansas Food Innovation Center at the Market Center of the Ozarks (AFIC@MCO), bested three other competitors in the event sponsored by the Rogers Public Library Foundation…

Survey Assesses Mexican Consumers’ Opinions on GMO Corn Import Ban

Survey Assesses Mexican Consumers’ Opinions on GMO Corn Import Ban

A fully implemented ban on genetically modified corn in Mexico could disproportionately affect the nation’s lower-income consumers, according to a recently published study by agricultural economists with the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture…

Land-Grant Faculty, Staff Earn Honors at Annual Ag Awards

Land-Grant Faculty, Staff Earn Honors at Annual Ag Awards

Outstanding land-grant faculty and staff were honored Friday during the annual Agriculture Awards, held at the Don Tyson Center for Agricultural Sciences. The event recognizes the achievements of those from the UADA and the Dale Bumpers College…