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Response deadline looms for custom rates survey sent to Oklahoma agricultural producers

Thu, Sep 26, 2019

Producers are encouraged to respond by Oct. 11.

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Food safety tips to tackle tailgates

Tue, Sep 24, 2019

Football season is well underway, and many fans are counting down until their next tailgate to cheer on their favorite teams. The Oklahoma State University Robert M. Kerr Food and Agricultural Products Center recommends food safety tips to help tailgaters ensure they have a fun and safe football season.

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GardenFest, Mum Sale and Pumpkin Palooza at The Botanic Garden at OSU

Thu, Sep 19, 2019

The annual GardenFest, Mum Sale and Pumpkin Palooza will take place Oct. 5 at The Botanic Garden at OSU.

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New OSU beardless wheat variety seed available for fall planting

Wed, Sep 18, 2019

OK Corral is OSU's best all-around beardless wheat variety since Deliver, and overall is the most attractive beardless variety in the hard red winter wheat marketplace today.

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As the weather cools, prepare your plants to be moved indoors

Wed, Sep 18, 2019

Before the fall weather moves it, prepare your patio plants to be moved indoors.

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OSU meetings this fall offer farm bill insights to producers

Tue, Sep 17, 2019

As producers finish with planting and harvest this fall, it is important they set aside time to consider their options for risk management programs as provided through the 2018 farm bill.

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Soil health is topic for Organic Oklahoma Conference

Tue, Sep 10, 2019

The upcoming Organic Oklahoma Conference will provide organic producers, gardeners and conventional producers valuable information about soil health.

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FAPC to hold product development contest for college students; winner receives $500 grand prize

Tue, Sep 10, 2019

he Oklahoma State University Robert M. Kerr Food and Agricultural Products Center is challenging college students to share their creative and innovative ideas for new food and beverage products for a chance to compete in a product innovation competition in November. The Food Product Innovation Competition will take place Nov. 5 from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. at FAPC and will foster creative research, idea development, product and process development, and commercialization potential and evaluation. Individuals or teams who want to compete must complete the entry form by Oct. 10.

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OK-FIRE training workshops slated this fall

Mon, Sep 09, 2019

Oklahoma State University Cooperative Extension is hosting free workshops this fall to help those involved in wildland fire management learn more about OK-FIRE.

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Greenhouse Learning Center now open on OSU campus

Wed, Aug 28, 2019

A grand opening took place recently for the new, state-of-the-art Greenhouse Learning Center located on the Oklahoma State University campus.

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OSU peanut and cotton field tour set for Sept. 19 in Ft. Cobb

Mon, Aug 26, 2019

Tour stop discussions will focus on cotton cropping systems and varieties, peanut disease control, weed control and irrigation. Participants will get a firsthand look at the new peanut variety Contender.

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Going Global: OSU student shares food safety abroad

Thu, Aug 22, 2019

Jaymee Zabienski, an Oklahoma State University biosystems and agricultural engineering graduate student from Tulsa, served two weeks this summer as the needed volunteer on a Farmer-to-Farmer mission trip to Jamaica for the U.S. Agency for International Development. This project was designed to help budding agricultural-based Jamaican companies create a facility meeting the standards of Good Manufacturing Practices and Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points, while also expanding the economic opportunity of their rural community.

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