Tuesday, November 04, 2008
Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences will play a key role in a new research effort to support and enhance the nation's specialty-crop production. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Specialty Crop Research Initiative has allocated $28 million nationally for this federal fiscal year, and Penn State is the lead institution or partner on three projects funded for about $7 million of that total. Specialty crops are defined as fruits, vegetables, tree nuts, nursery stock and floriculture crops. This year's federal farm bill was the first to include dedicated federal research funding for these crops. (more)
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
More than a third of all farm sales comes from specialty crops such as fruits, vegetables and tree nuts. With consumers increasingly demanding food that is safe, nutritious and locally grown, the Mid-Atlantic specialty crop industry is sure to grow. According to Kathleen Kelley, project coordinator and associate professor of horticultural marketing and business management at Penn State, consumer demands are increasing as well as rising transportation costs for producers in California, Florida and the Southern Hemisphere countries who supply fresh fruits and vegetables to the Mid-Atlantic region. (more)
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Several state and federal agencies, in collaboration with Penn State Cooperative Extension, are on the look out for various species of invasive insects this summer in many parts of Pennsylvania. Statewide surveys for exotic insect pests will target the emerald ash borer, exotic Cerambycidae (longhorned beetles), exotic Buprestidae (metallic wood-boring beetles), exotic Scolytidae (bark beetles), Sirex noctilio (known as the Sirex wood wasp), and other exotic pests that affect Pennsylvania's plant resources. (more)
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
The Department of Architecture will kick off "Deviant Decoration: The Architectural Interior," a two-year series of free public lectures and exhibitions, on Monday, April 21, with lectures by notable Belgian architectural theory professor Hildegarde Heynen and emerging professor/architect Sheri Schumacher from Auburn University. The lectures by Heynen and Schumacher, which focus on the domestic interior, will begin at 4 p.m. in the Stuckeman Family Building, first-floor jury space. (more)
Friday, March 21, 2008
Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences has been awarded a four-year, $4.8 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service to support phase two of a major international effort aimed at promoting animal biosecurity and mitigating losses from Johne's disease in livestock.The Johne's Disease Integrated Program (JDIP) -- a consortium of 170 scientists from more than 50 leading academic institutions, government agencies and industry organizations around the world -- is led by Vivek Kapur, head of Penn State's Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences.
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