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Mark your calendars! This summer, all are invited to attend 4-H county fairs across Indiana. A spreadsheet with a full list of dates can be downloaded from the 4-H Youth Development homepage by clicking View Dates.
Trio of journal articles highlights consumer knowledge gaps in safe preparation methods
The Women in Agriculture (WIA) team in Purdue University Extension is seeking nominees for the 2024 Purdue Women in Agriculture Awards, including the Emerging Women in Agriculture Leadership Award.
This week, farmers, consumers, and advocates across the country are making calls to Congress with a central message: pass a farm bill for all farmers that centers conservation, not consolidation. Farm bill negotiations may be heating up once again after a standstill that has left members of...
Read More In collaboration with The Nature Conservancy, Purdue Forestry and Natural Resources (FNR) Extension has developed the Deer Impact Toolbox, a comprehensive set of resources designed to help landowners and managers understand, monitor and effectively mitigate the impact of deer on Indiana’s forest... Read More
Produce from Keng Xiong, at Jack London Square, in Oakland, CA. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
On March 19, Senator Jack Reed, a Democrat from Rhode Island,...
Read More Gardeners at any level are invited to join Purdue University Extension, the University of Tennessee, Iowa State University and North Carolina State University for the third year of the citizen-science experiment called “Citi-Sci: Gardening for Science!” from April through September 2024
Many consumers view conventional meats as both tastier and healthier than laboratory-grown alternatives, according to the March Consumer Food Insights Report.
In the summer of 2023, the skies throughout the Upper Midwest were hidden behind a blanket of smoke. Air quality declined so substantially that people were warned to stay inside, and asthma-related emergency room visits spiked across the country. The gray haze had come all the way from forest fires... Read More
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