News & Stories
U of I Scientist Becomes Idaho’s First National Academy of Medicine Inductee
Posted 3/28/2023 7:00:00 AM
A global nutrition crisis affecting babies of COVID-19-positive mothers was brewing in the spring of 2020, when University of Idaho’s Michelle (Shelley) McGuire and colleagues sought to quell fears … Read more
Ag Talk Tuesdays Reaching Producers
Posted 3/22/2023 7:00:00 AM
On certain Tuesday mornings throughout summer, University of Idaho Extension experts and agricultural professionals meet virtually to share observations on crop progress, pest and disease threats and … Read more
Research Provides Guidance on Fuel Breaks
Posted 3/22/2023 7:00:00 AM
n ongoing University of Idaho study should help officials with the federal Bureau of Land Management’s Twin Falls District Office better understand how and where to build fuel breaks for controlling … Read more
Intercropping Study Results Surprise
Posted 3/22/2023 7:00:00 AM
For more than a decade, University of Idaho Extension Educator Steven Hines sought an answer for Magic Valley farmers in need of a short-season crop to plant after harvesting corn silage for … Read more
Smoke Exposure Linked to Smaller, Misshapen Potatoes, According to U of I, BSU Study
Posted 3/21/2023 5:15:00 PM
Potato plants exposed to extreme smoke produced lower marketable yields than smoke-free plants, initial data from University of Idaho and BSU study finds. Read more
Lewiston High School Students Participating in UI Extension Program Discover New Aquatic Invader
Posted 3/9/2023 4:43:00 PM
Their discovery through IDAH20, a University of Idaho Extension citizens’ science program, was published in a paper online this week. Read more
Economics Students Helping Industry
Posted 3/8/2023 8:00:00 AM
Faculty members in the University of Idaho’s Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology (AERS) and UI Extension educators have historically led development of agricultural enterprise … Read more
Potato Chip Trials
Posted 3/8/2023 8:00:00 AM
In a basement kitchen at University of Idaho’s Aberdeen Research and Extension Center, scientific aid Chelsey Lowder sliced a white-fleshed, tennis ball-sized tuber into translucent circles, allowing … Read more