Clients wanted for Landscape Design and Contracting student capstone projects
Students in CSU’s Landscape Design and Contracting program are seeking clients to partner with on projects for their capstone course.
Students in CSU’s Landscape Design and Contracting program are seeking clients to partner with on projects for their capstone course.
Coloradans consider the food and agriculture industry to be important to the state’s future economic resiliency and quality of life. Those surveyed agree it is important to maintain land and water for agricultural purposes in Colorado.
“Wildfire impacts society through many channels: direct loss of property and life, smoke and health impacts, indirect impacts of a fire on tourism and home values, and impacts on agriculture, including vineyards and livestock,” said Jude Bayham, Colorado State University associate professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics. “Most fires are small and pose little threat to people and property. The big ones that burn near development create the largest impacts.”
Since 1981, CSU Ag Day has honored Colorado State University’s roots as a leader in agricultural research, education and outreach by bringing people together around the table to celebrate food, fellowship and football.
The unique crop production contest offers an immersive learning opportunity to demonstrate management strategies.
The study will support future efforts to better match horses with their roles by identifying the genetic roots of certain horse behaviors.
Students in the program are seeking clients in the CSU community and beyond to partner with them on projects for their capstone course.
Elanco’s Chief Sustainability Officer, Sara Place, will join CSU’s AgNext team and transition to her new role as associate professor of feedlot systems.
Research from CSU and the USDA show that vaccines and social distancing are effective at limiting the spread of COVID-19 within and between wildland fire incidents, as well as reducing its impact on the wildland firefighting workforce.
The project, announced at the National Grazing Lands Coalition meeting Dec. 7, will help uncover how farmers’ and ranchers’ grazing management decisions impact soil health.