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U of I Scientist Becomes Idaho’s First National Academy of Medicine Inductee
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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