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- - Virginia MarketMaker offers solution for producers facing market losses due to COVID-19
    Agricultural organizations including Virginia Cooperative Extension are stepping up to provide resources and solutions for producers now looking for new ways to sell their already-planted crops and provide consumers with the nutrition they need.
- - Leaders in global agricultural trade to gather at Virginia Governor’s Conference on Agricultural Trade
    The 12th annual event will feature agricultural leaders in industry and government, and take place March 10 at the Downtown Richmond Marriott Hotel. Registration is still open.
- - March 10 workshop in Middleburg grass technologies that benefit farmers and livestock
    The Alliance for Grassland Renewal, in collaboration with Virginia Tech’s Shenandoah Valley and Middleburg Agricultural Research and Extension Centers and Virginia Cooperative Extension, is hosting a workshop on educating farmers and landowners about converting pastures to novel endophyte tall fescue.
- - Researchers apply new technology to identify plant pathogen strains in Virginia
    When emerging plant pathogens go undetected, they have the potential to negatively affect food industries, conservation efforts, and even human health. And, just like emerging human pathogens, such as the 2019 novel Coronavirus, emerging plant pathogens need to be diagnosed as soon as possible to prevent them from spreading.
- - Dwayne Edwards named head of Virginia Tech Department of Biological Systems Engineering
    Edwards started on Jan. 1 as the head of the department, which is in both the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the College of Engineering.
- - Bye-bye mayfly: Can the burrowing mayfly’s decline serve as a warning system for the health of our environment?
    Mayflies have been disappearing at alarming rates throughout the United States, and through use of radar technology the rate of decline of these insects can now be determined. Losing these mayflies can have a distinct negative impact on our environment, and Sally Entrekin is working to find out why they are dying off.
- - Virginia Tech testing bee-friendly forage for cattle
    A research team will test 20 different wildflowers native to Virginia and Tennessee and will measure which ones attract the most bees and, when planted alongside native grasses, produce the healthiest cattle.
- - CALS Magazine now online
- - Carl Zipper honored with emeritus status
    A member of the Virginia Tech community since 1986, Zipper has improved the scientific understanding of water, aquatic biota, soil, and vegetation response to and recovery from Appalachian coal mining.
- - Researchers combine technologies to resolve plant pathogen genomes
    In a recent paper published in Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, David Haak and John McDowell, from the School of Plant and Environmental Sciences in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, proved that genomic sequencing and assembly tools can be improved by combining two generations of technology.
- - Susan Clark honored with emerita status
    Clark, associate professor of plant and environmental science in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Virginia Tech, has been conferred the title of associate professor emerita by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors.
- - Ruth Grene honored with emerita status
    A member of the Virginia Tech community since 1988, Grene made significant contributions to plant biology, providing an increased understanding of the effects of drought and air pollution on crops, trees, and model plants.
- - Institute for Advanced Learning and Research and Virginia Tech launch the Controlled Environment Agriculture Innovation Center in Danville
    The Innovation Center will leverage technology and research to accelerate advancements, economic development, and regional participation in the developing industry of indoor farming.
- - Department of Food Science and Technology ranked among best in nation for both its undergraduate and master’s programs
    The Department of Food Science and Technology placed ninth on Successful Student’s list of the 10 best bachelor’s in food science and nutrition programs in the country and eighth on its list of best master’s in food science programs.
- - Presidential Turkeys return to roost at Virginia Tech
    For the fourth year, the turkeys will travel from the White House to Gobblers Rest. Meet the newest Hokies at a Dec. 1 open house.
- - Virginia Tech Foundation secures grant funding to build new Virginia Seafood AREC
    The $3 million grant from the U.S. Economic Development Administration will be used to construct a new state-of-the-art Virginia Seafood Agricultural Research and Extension Center in Hampton, Virginia.
- - Virginia Tech alumnus Michael McDowell named 2019 Virginia Farmer of the Year
    McDowell has grown three rented acres of farm into an environmentally-conscious, 1,200-acre operation, where he and his family manage a leading Virginia herd of registered Angus cattle.
- - Workforce development key for Virginia’s rural communities, governor says during Virginia Tech visit
    Alan Grant, dean of the Virginia Tech College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, was part of a panel that discussed how technological changes are helping agriculture — the state’s largest private economic sector — remain a driver of rural economies.
- - Beef cattle industry giant to be honored at Virginia Tech
    Gary Minish was one of the first to champion leaner, more heavily muscled, and faster growing cattle over the less profitable, smaller, and fatter cattle of the 1950s and early ‘60s. His influence helped shape the modern beef cattle phenotype, long before the introduction of genomic technology.
- - Virginia Tech discovery could help boost $40 billion soybean industry
    A new article published by Virginia Tech researchers and graduate students has revealed that soybean root nodules harbor high abundances of atypical non-nitrogen fixing bacteria, a discovery that has the potential to improve the crop resilience and yield of the crop.

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