Colorado State Fair 2023: How CSU is strengthening rural connections
CSU’s manager of External Relations-Rural Colorado talks about this new role is focused on strengthening CSU’s longstanding ties with rural Colorado.
CSU’s manager of External Relations-Rural Colorado talks about this new role is focused on strengthening CSU’s longstanding ties with rural Colorado.
In a recent CSU, CDA survey, more than 80% of respondents said buying locally grown or raised products was a big driver in their purchasing decisions. CSU agricultural economist Dawn Thilmany says that’s important for the marquee brands but also the agricultural industry as a whole.
Whether they’re identifying that strange bug in your garden, helping agricultural producers fight crop-destroying pests, or teaching young and old about the coolest attributes of our eight-legged friends, CSU’s newest entomologists are showing how even the smallest mite is a big deal.
To help improve the process on both sides of the fence, Colorado State University researchers have received a $1 million grant from the USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture.
Housed within the Spur campus, the Ardent Mills Teaching and Culinary Center is part of a strategic partnership that will focus on promoting the science of regenerative agriculture systems, agricultural literacy and career pathways, and innovation in food, nutrition, agribusiness and the food industry.
While California’s wildflower explosion has been making headlines, CSU horticulturist Jennifer Bousselot says Colorado’s own super bloom season is just beginning to sprout.
The recent study from Colorado State University’s Department of Soil and Crop Sciences found that regenerative practices — including integrating crop and livestock systems — were successful as long-term carbon storage solutions.
The $300,000 grant will support a National Climate Change Working Group featuring a wide variety of experts focused on guiding the next decade of research into climate change.
CSU will partner with Oregon State University to lead one of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s 12 new Regional Food Business Centers helping farmers, ranchers and food entrepreneurs in six western states grow their businesses, while also strengthening connections between rural and urban areas and closing the gaps to success.
As biocontrol agents are used more in agriculture, CSU researchers say knowing more about parasitoid identity, along with the diets of their prey, will be key to determining the best biocontrol agents while also reducing the need for pesticides.