• For the land and its people, the North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station and NDSU Extension newsletter


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November/December 2020

  • NDSU Extension Promotes Safety on the Farm and Ranch
  • NDSU Extension Helping North Dakotans Work Remotely
  • NDSU Extension Working to Prevent Opioid Misuse in Rural Areas
  • NDSU Precision Agriculture Research May Lead to Significant Savings
  • Cattle, Crop Integration Research Showing Promise
  • CAFSNR Offers Undergraduate Scholarship Opportunities

September/October 2020

  • 4-H Adjusts Activities With a COVID-19 Summer
  • Extension Helps Develop Soil and Water Conservation Leaders
  • NDSU Extension Pesticide Certification Program Vital to Safe Handling and Knowledge
  • NDSU Breeding Barley Varieties for Craft Brewing Industry
  • Narrowleaf Hawksbeard Controllable if Caught Early
  • CAFSNR Faculty Adapt to HyFlex Teaching Environment

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July/August 2020

  • CAFSNR Teaching Impacts Students for Life
  • 4-H Experiences Impact Lifelong Leadership
  • Extension Food and Nutrition Programs Empower Families
  • Wheat scab research reduces losses
  • An intercropped field of canola and field peas
    Intercropping Research Shows Increased Efficiency and Favorable Returns
  • Beef Cattle Temperament is Linked to Health, Meat Quality

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May/June 2020

  • A farmer holds a child while examining a head of wheat
    NDSU Extension helps farmers and ranchers cope with stress
  • N.D. 4-H alum Bridget Mattern reads to a group of young children
    4-H experience leads to lifelong community service
  • NDSU Extension specialist and agents use a pickup-mounted soil probe to test soil salinity
    How NDSU is helping bring productivity back to salty soils
  • Professor Senay Simsek and an NDSU graduate student examine loaves of bread
    NDAES scientists study effects of vacuum steam treatment on hard red spring wheat
  • A small patch of rangeland burning
    Patch burn grazing shows benefits
  • An NDSU vet tech student interacts a beef cow
    CAFSNR prepares students for vet school and careers

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Mar./Apr. 2020

  • NDSU Responds Immediately and Innovatively to COVID-19
  • NDSU Extension Leads National Coalition to Fight Soybean Cyst Nematode
  • Powerful Tools for Caregivers Program Provides Support
  • 4-H Judging Activities Develop Lifelong Skills
  • Distillers Grains Can Be Used as Fertilizer
  • Mobile Cow Command Center Provides Answers
  • Bison Fund: Creating Real Student Success Through Real Investments

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Jan./Feb. 2020

  • Tractor spraying a field
    NDSU Research Examines Precision Agriculture Technology Adoption and Usage
  • Paige Anderson, a master’s student in Animal Sciences from Jackson, Minn., weighs a lamb as part of this research project.
    NDSU Scientists Study Pain Responses of Sheep
  • NDSU Extension agent, Paige Brummund, inspects a crop left in the field due to wet weather conditions
    NDSU Extension Focuses on 2019’s Ag Challenges
  • North Dakota citizens attending Lead Local training
    Leadership Training Benefits North Dakota
  • 4-H volunteers work on a Lego Robotics project
    4-H Volunteers Impact North Dakota Positively

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