Assistant Director of the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station & Professor of Soil Fertility; https://xitter.cf/t.co/oMASPIlgMv
Arkansas, USA
Joined October 2013
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Nathan Slaton retweeted
As concerns about farmer mental health continue to grow, agricultural researchers are compiling more data on the complex nature of suicide awareness among those who may be able to offer help — school-based agricultural educators. Read more: aaes.uada.edu/news/farm-stre… @AginArk @uarkbumpers @AR_Extension @USDA_NIFA #NIFAImpacts
ALT A harvester unloads rice into a combine under a partly cloudy sky.
ALT Donald M. Johnson head and shoulders portrait in a red shirt with UA Razorback logo.
Nathan Slaton retweeted
John Boozman, chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry, will be the keynote for this year's Future of Arkansas Agriculture and Beyond speaker series event, set for Oct. 30.
For registration info, see: bit.ly/Fryar-Center-Boozman
Nathan Slaton retweeted
Leadership update: Cynthia Sides has been named interim director of @AginArk's Technology Commercialization Office. She will continue serving as associate director for research development and compliance while helping move UADA discoveries into real-world products, partnerships and solutions. Read more: aaes.uada.edu/news/cynthia-s…
ALT Cynthia Sides portrait.
Nathan Slaton retweeted
John Boozman, chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry, will be the keynote for this year's Future of Arkansas Agriculture and Beyond speaker series event, set for Oct. 30.
For registration info, see: bit.ly/Fryar-Center-Boozman
Nathan Slaton retweeted
If it peeps, clucks, crows or gobbles, Billy Hargis wanted to know what disease threatened it and how to stop it. After more than 40 years of research and teaching, the veterinarian and Distinguished Professor of poultry science has moved on to a new phase in his life: retirement and the freedom to travel without answering emails. Read about his career highlights: aaes.uada.edu/news/billy-har… @AginArk @uarkbumpers
ALT Billy Hargis portrait
ALT Billy Hargis with LaTasha Gray with turkey poults in the background
ALT Billy Hargis with JF Mullet and Deacue Fields.
Nathan Slaton retweeted
Want your sanitizer to work its best? Start with a clean surface. A Center for Food Safety study shows why cleaning food-contact surfaces matters, from produce packing houses to home kitchens: aaes.uada.edu/news/cutting-b… @AginArk #foodsafety
ALT Cutting board in a kitchen.
Nathan Slaton retweeted
As we celebrate #NationalRiceMonth, researchers with the @AginArk and @uarkbumpers are advancing rice quality, water stewardship and brewing applications with support from the @AnheuserBusch Foundation. Read more: aaes.uada.edu/news/anheuser-… #ArkansasRice
ALT Rice in a rice mill feeder.
ALT Rice in the field.
Nathan Slaton retweeted
In a major step forward in the fight against rice stink bugs, @ArkansasEPP scientists assembled the first chromosome-scale reference genome for the insect. Read more about the research supported by the Arkansas Biosciences Institute: aaes.uada.edu/news/rice-stin… @AginArk @uarkbumpers @SzalanskiAllen
ALT Rice stink bug on sunflower leaf.
Nathan Slaton retweeted
Why does fresh beef turn brown before its sell-by date? Researchers with @AginArk are using artificial intelligence to identify bacteria that may influence beef color stability and help reduce food waste. Read more: aaes.uada.edu/news/beef-brow…
ALT Beef steaks
Nathan Slaton retweeted
AFIC@MCO is more than a commercial kitchen. It's a resource hub helping food entrepreneurs and nonprofits grow. See how a NWA nonprofit turned a search for kitchen space into a government contracting opportunity. Read the story: aaes.uada.edu/news/our-healt… @AginArk @AR_Extension
ALT Susan Moore in hairnet in the kitchen preparing food, smiling at a person in the foreground.
Nathan Slaton retweeted
Researchers are gauging the effectiveness of electron beams in the fight against foodborne illness pathogens in poultry. The non-thermal technology uses high-energy electron beams that cause irreparable damage to pathogen DNA. Read more: aaes.uada.edu/news/ebeam-pou… @AginArk @uarkbumpers
ALT Casey Owens portrait.
Nathan Slaton retweeted
The American Society for Horticultural Sciences recently presented one of its first Lifetime Achievement Awards to John Clark, a Distinguished Professor emeritus for @AginArk. Over the course of his career, Clark was the developer or co-developer of over 80 fruit varieties and contributed to the @ASHS_Hort as an editor of its journal, research division VP and society president. Read more: aaes.uada.edu/news/john-clar… @uarkbumpers @uarkhort
ALT John Clark in the field inspecting blackberry plants
ALT John Clark on stage accepting the award at the ASHS annual meeting.
Nathan Slaton retweeted
Through his work in @AginArk's Soybean Breeding Program, Caio Vieira is working to develop soybean varieties that can better tolerate the stresses Arkansas producers routinely face, including flooding, drought and root-knot nematodes. Read more about his work: aaes.uada.edu/news/soybean-p… @uarkbumpers
ALT Caio Vieira speaks at the field day.
Nathan Slaton retweeted
Soil texture is an important factor in nutrient management and irrigation decisions.
🫙The soil texture jar test is a simple way to estimate your soil texture.
Today, Michael Chaney, William Barnett, and I recorded a video at NERREC showing how to do the test yourself. Video coming soon! 🎥
Thanks to @SMatthewsfarms for bringing up this topic! The first picture shows the jar test results from a sample we collected in his field. – at Bay, AR
Nathan Slaton retweeted
The long-term investment in fruit breeding includes training future research leaders. Isabella Vaughn, a @uarkhort Ph.D. student, is among those as a new member of the Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research Fellows Program. Read more at aaes.uada.edu/news/isabella-… @AginArk @uarkbumpers
ALT Isabella Vaughn in front of a blackberry patch.
Nathan Slaton retweeted
From foreign viruses to insect-related health problems, the @AginArk Veterinary Diagnostic Lab helps animal owners and veterinarians identify the cause of an illness or death. Read more about the lab's services at aaes.uada.edu/news/vet-diagn… @ArkansasEPP
ALT James Barton portrait in the lab with microscopes in background.
Nathan Slaton retweeted
Collected data today in our fungicide strip trial at Jefferson Co. Outrageous frogeye leaf spot in the nontreated. We get tremendous data from these on-farm trials.
Nathan Slaton retweeted
As a horticulture specialist, Amanda McWhirt works directly with growers by conducting on-farm visits, sharing research-based recommendations, and helping producers overcome challenges from planting through harvest.
@uarkhorticulture
#PlantScience #Horticulture #Berries
Nathan Slaton retweeted
This week we collected cotton petiole samples from a producer field to assess potassium (K) status.
Tissue testing can identify K deficiencies before visual symptoms develop, giving growers an opportunity to respond before yield potential is reduced.
If you're considering tissue testing, our latest blog summarizes when to sample, what plant part to collect, the target petiole K concentrations, and more:
arkansascrops.uada.edu/posts…
Thanks to Chris Grimes, Craighead County Extension Agent, for taking me to visit the cotton fields!😊🫡 – at Bay, AR
Nathan Slaton retweeted
Mark your calendar for July 28!
Learn what’s next for Arkansas grapes and wine at the Native and Hybrid Grape Field Day: aaes.uada.edu/news/native-hy… @AginArk @uarkhort @uarkbumpers
ALT Grapes growing under a high tunnel.