PLANT MEMORY — Researchers with the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station have shown how soybean plants can pass on adaptive traits to progeny after experiencing drought and herbivory (U of A System Division of Agriculture photo by Manish Gautam)

Study: Soybeans seem to inherit the bad memories of their parents

  • By John Lovett │ University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture
Ornithodoros turicata ticks taken during a Texas A&M AgriLIfe Research project in Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge. (Brian Rich/Texas A&M AgriLife)
Corn and soybeans (University of Illinois Extension)

Corn after soy: New study quantifies rotation benefits and trade-offs

  • By Lauren Quinn │ University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Danielle Graham, left, works alongside her advisee Karen Echevarria, a lab assistant and undergraduate student at the University of Arkansas majoring in animal science. (U of A System Division of Agriculture photo)

Investigating probiotics as a new poultry hatchery disinfectant that keeps good bacteria

  • By Maddie Johnson │ University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture
Sara Wyant
Jennifer Bell bison at Nachusa Grasslands (Photo: Jennifer Bell - University of Wyoming)
A variety of packages of ground beef at the supermarket. (iStock │ #958146400 - AHPhotoswpg)

K-State study reveals insights into ground beef spoilage

  • By Madeline Drake │ K-State Research and Extension news service
Members of the Wheat Improvement Team, Brett Carver, Meriem Aoun, and Liuling Yan pose for a photo in Aoun’s greenhouse at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater on Jan. 17. (Photo by Mitchell Alcala/OSU.)