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As we settle into June, I want to thank our OSU Agriculture family for an outstanding spring semester and for continuing to make a meaningful impact. I encourage you to take time to rest and recharge. Moments like these are important for renewing the energy that fuels our work and our mission.
Although summer may slow for some, many of our faculty and staff remain actively engaged in projects and programming. For example, our wheat specialists are currently in the field harvesting and collecting data to support producers as they plan for the next growing season. Wheat harvest results are already available, with additional data being added regularly, and I encourage you to explore the variety trial results by location.
Summer also brings excitement as we welcome new students and their families through Orientation and Enrollment. These visits are an important opportunity to share who we are and the many opportunities within the Ferguson College of Agriculture.
Warm regards,
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Jayson Lusk
Vice President and Dean
OSU Agriculture
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Lahoma Field Day
The annual Wheat Field Day at the North Central Research Station brings together farmers, researchers and industry leaders to see agricultural innovation firsthand. From wheat variety trials to the latest crop management research, the work showcased at Lahoma helps producers make informed decisions that strengthen Oklahoma agriculture.
| | OSU Agriculture is comprised of the Ferguson College of Agriculture and two state agencies: OSU Ag Research and OSU Extension. Learn the latest from our three mission areas. | |
Teaching
Hope is Alive, an Oklahoma City-based organization dedicated to providing people with a holistic approach to managing their addictions, asked horticulture and landscape architecture students to help design a healing garden for its new rehabilitation center.
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Research
Members of OSU’s Wheat Improvement Team recently co-authored a paper on research related to a campaign to boost public health through their partnership with the Foundation for Innovation in Healthy Food, which includes multiple universities.
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Extension
4-H’ers helped beautify a historic stretch of Route 66 while supporting Oklahoma agriculture during the Tulsa County 4-H on Route 66 event, including a community service project at Tulsa Fire Station 66, where participants installed native pollinator flower beds.
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OSU Extension Specialists Offer Information
The New World screwworm, a dangerous pest that can seriously affect livestock, pets and wildlife, and less commonly, birds and humans, has been confirmed in the United States. With its return, OSU Extension experts offered producers useful information.
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Prevention for Oklahoma
Rosslyn Biggs, DVM, OSU Extension beef cattle specialist, explains what Oklahoma livestock owners need to know about the recent detection of the New World screwworm in Texas.
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Facts about NWS
Jonathan Cammack, OSU Extension livestock entomology and parasitology specialist, explains the fly’s biology, how it moves and the parasitology behind infestations.
| | New World screwworms are NOT currently present in Oklahoma. As the situation evolves, updates will be posted to the following webpage. | |
Storybook Trail
Tiny footsteps and big imaginations can now wander the new Evelyn DeBenning Storybook Trail at The Botanic Garden at OSU. This unique and whimsical addition to the garden combines literature, art and horticulture to inspire young readers. This idea began several years ago, when Annawyn DeBenning Shamas wanted to honor her mother and contribute to the Stillwater community.
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Orientation and Enrollment
The Ferguson College of Agriculture welcomed the newest members of the Ferguson College Family to Stillwater and showed them what makes the college so special.
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Faculty Awards
Four faculty members were awarded for their work and contributions to the Ferguson College of Agriculture.
| | Adel Pezeshki, an associate professor in the OSU Department of Animal and Food Sciences, received the Excellence in Graduate Student Advising and Mentoring Award. | | Morgan Pfeiffer, an assistant professor in the OSU Department of Animal and Food Sciences, was recognized with the Early Career Excellence in Teaching Award. | | Angel Riggs, a professor in the OSU Department of Agricultural Education, Communications and Leadership, received the Dick and Malinda Berry Fischer Award for Teaching Excellence. | | Dan Shoup, a professor in the OSU Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management, was recognized with the Excellence in Undergraduate Advising and Mentoring Award. | |
AAAS Fellow
Million Tadege, a professor in the OSU Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, was recently named a 2025 American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow for his innovative work in understanding leaf blade development and biomass functional genomics.
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SUNUP - How Is New World Screwworm News Affecting Cattle Markets?
In this edition of Livestock Marketing, Derrell Peel, OSU Extension livestock marketing specialist, discusses how the latest New World screwworm news is influencing cattle markets and what producers should watch moving forward.
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Oklahoma Gardening - Snakes in the Garden: How to Identify Venomous vs. Nonvenomous Species
Mark Turner, OSU Extension wildlife specialist, joins the show to discuss how to safely manage unexpected snake encounters in your backyard this summer.
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Wheat Harvest
Selected wheat plots at the OSU Agronomy Research Station are marked to indicate they need to be hand-harvested, allowing researchers to collect detailed data on grain quality and variety performance.
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Creative Courses
Participants can tap into their creative side through a Landscape Watercolor for Relaxation online course and Outdoor Living Space in-person design course offered by OSU Extension and the horticulture and landscape architecture department.
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Rural Broadband
Land-grant universities across the South are addressing the growing demand for digital connectivity in rural areas by leading research-based efforts to expand broadband, strengthen digital skills and connect communities to essential services.
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AI in Hospitals
The new Rural Health Transformation Program is promoting AI use in rural healthcare. Hospitals with limited resources could use help understanding how AI use should look for them, and how they can ensure the technology is appropriate for their patients.
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Marketing Hype
A growing trend on grocery store shelves is the appearance of food packages featuring the words “added protein” in bold, eye-catching colors and fonts. Are these foods the answer to better nutrition, or simply a marketing strategy?
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The Code Calls
How will you answer? Supporting OSU Agriculture helps further initiatives to positively impact the lives of Oklahomans and the state’s economy.
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Oklahoma State University Agriculture
202 Agricultural Hall
Stillwater, OK 74078
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