News and Events
Current News Releases:
- New Food Safety Regulations Expected for Fruit and Vegetable Growers—Training Scheduled
Regulations have passed the U.S. House of Representatives and will soon come before the U.S. Senate on fruit and vegetable food safety for growers. These regulations are based on Good Agricultural Practices (GAP’s) and third party audits. If passed in their current form, the regulations will usher in the most sweeping changes in this industry in 70 years.
- UT Extension and 4-H Launch Yearlong Centennial Celebration
Calendar year 2010 marks a century of University of Tennessee Extension and 4-H in Tennessee. That’s 100 years of educational outreach and service to the state’s farmers, families and youth to enhance their quality of life.
- Tennessee 4-H Skillathon Team Excels at Nationals
Tennessee's 4-H livestock skillathon team won the 4th place award at the National 4-H Livestock Skillathon Contest held in conjunction with the North American International Livestock Exposition in Louisville, Kentucky.
- Agritourism Conference Joins Horticulture Expo in January
The fifth Tennessee Agritourism Cultivating Farm Revenue Conference will be held in Nashville on January 28-30, 2010. This year marks the first time the conference will be held in conjunction with the Tennessee Horticultural Expo.
- Workshops Planned for Small Farm Enterprises
Landowners and transitional farmers looking to turn their small farm into a profitable enterprise should make plans to attend a five-session course designed to help them learn how to best utilize their land resources and start a successful business.
- UT Extension Beef Experts/County Agents Study at USDA Facility in Nebraska
Tennessee’s beef industry generates $600 million dollars for our agricultural economy each year, but to keep our cattle farms thriving - we need the latest knowledge and technology. That’s the opinion of University of Tennessee Extension experts and county agents who recently spent a week in October at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Roman L. Hruska Meat Animal Research Center in Clay Center, Nebraska. Twenty-three UT Extension representatives made the trip.
- Asian Soybean Rust Confirmed in West Tennessee
The significant agricultural disease Asian soybean rust was confirmed on September 4 in West Tennessee on soybean leaf samples collected by UT Extension soybean sentinel plot scouts from Shelby County.
- Experts Urge Producers to be Aware of Soybean Cyst Nematodes
In Tennessee, many soybean fields are looking good this year, but experts say more cases of Sudden Death Syndrome are showing up which means there could be trouble below in the form of soybean cyst nematodes.
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