News Archive: Horticulture
UK’s James B. Beam Institute receives donation of distilling equipment to advance teaching and research
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Aimee Nielson
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UK will be the only university with a still house and maturation facility on campus.
UK board announces University Research Professorships for 2020-21
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Jenny Wells-Hosley
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Horticulture professor, Seth DeBolt, was named as a University Research Professor for the upcoming academic year.
UK entomologists find invasive paper wasps preying on monarch butterfly larvae
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Katie Pratt
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UK entomologists observed 120 encounters of the invasive wasp attacking monarch larvae in Central Kentucky.
UK researcher part of team that found how plants forget
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Katie Pratt
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Farmers markets open with an eye toward safe sales
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Carol Lea Spence
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Faced with an unheard-of pandemic, market managers and farmers market boards in big cities and small, rural communities started rethinking how they could open their spring markets while keeping producers and customers safe — many with the help of University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension agents.
Extension offers information for H-2A workers to keep agriculture operations safe, healthy and running during pandemic
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Katie Pratt
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Extension agents give producers tips to help welcome their H-2A workers back to their farms amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Gardeners beware; late frosts in the forecast for much of the state
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Carol Lea Spence
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Unseasonably cold temperatures are putting the kibosh on the spring dreams of many Kentucky gardeners, who are itching to plant young annuals or vegetables or may already have done so.
UK Extension’s Healthy at Home newsletter available in Spanish
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Katie Pratt
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El boletín Saludable en Casa del Servicio de Extensión de la Universidad de Kentucky está disponible en español
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Katie Pratt
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