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Colorado State University’s Departments of Animal Science and Soil & Crop Sciences will be hosting a beef cattle field day and pasture school at ARDEC in Fort Collins, Colorado, October 4-5, 2018. It will feature an update and tour of the CSU pivot grazing project, experienced faculty and producers discussing grazing strategies, and a hands-on…

Safe, Secure, Sustainable – 2018 AgInnovation Summit Sep 20-21

Join us for a week of celebration and learning about food and resource systems during Ag Week on Campus September 19 -22

Important work is done every day at the San Luis Valley Research Center (SLVRC) and scientists from all walk of life come together to put forth effort in potato research. One such scientist is Caroline Gray, research associate and winner of the CAS Research Contributor Award. The College of Agricultural Sciences held a banquet where…

Severe winds are a common occurrence in the San Luis Valley and can cause heavy damage every year. The San Luis Valley Research Center, located in Center, Colorado received the brute force of these winds which ended in severe damage to a potato storage unit. High winds blew the storage unit’s roof into mangled sheets…

Senior Research Scientist and Manager of the Southwest Colorado Research Center Abdelfettah Berrada has been awarded nearly $250,000 from the Western Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education program to study how cover crops can enhance the sustainability of dryland farming on the Colorado Plateau. Read more about this grant below: Research and Education Cooperative Grant: SW15-008,…

The university’s Agricultural Research, Development and Education Center and its Dry Bean Breeding Project recently donated 3,500 pounds of dried pinto beans to the Food Bank for Larimer County and the Weld Food Bank, which assist people in need throughout northern Colorado. That’s nearly two tons of beans.

A doctoral student at Colorado State University has earned a prestigious international fellowship and $180,000 in funding for research aimed at combating rice bacterial diseases, with the goal of boosting production of a primary staple crop for poverty-stricken people in Africa and Latin America.

CSU is testing subsurface drip irrigation at the Fruita Agricultural Experiment Station.

CSU spuds grabbed the spotlight this year. Take a look!