A miniature goldendoodle dog staying cool on a hot summer day. (iStock │ #2187715472 - nycshooter)

Keep animals safe and healthy during excessive heat

  • By Lauren Quinn │ University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

How to help your chickens beat the heat 

Cracking of a tomato as a result of excess moisture, overheating of a vegetable or an overdose of fertilizers, on a bush close-up. Crop loss. Problems of agriculture, tomato disease. (iStock │ #1340725845 - Lyubov Kulikova)

Tomato cracking: is it preventable?

Watering a garden bed with watering can. (Adobe Stock │ #526862504 - Valerii Honcharuk)

How to brace the garden to resist heat stress

Woman filling a glass of water from a stainless steel or chrome tap or faucet (Photo: iStock - mheim3011)

Well and wastewater maintenance essential for landowners

Cattle in pasture (University of Missouri File photo)

Tall fescue adds to heat stress in cattle

  • By Linda Geist │ University of Missouri Extension
New Mexico Department of Agriculture

Cover crop initiative launches in Lower Rio Grande

Ingrid Peters, who will graduate from MSU on May 9, has been selected as an intern into the selective Short Term Educational Experiences for Research at the University of California, Berkeley. MSU Photo by Marcus "Doc" Cravens

Peters demonstrates her unique skills