New Extension agent Robert Cating is stationed in Hilo, attached to Plant and Environmental Protection Sciences and focused on floriculture, nursery and related industries statewide.

Over 40 participants attended Swine AI School, put on by Extension agent Mike DuPonte, specialist Halina Zaleski (HNFAS), and MS student Brittany Castle in Hilo, and a swine time was had by all!

Michael Kantar (TPSS) was quoted in a recent article in The Atlantic discussing a new study about nitrogen fixation in a particular variety of corn. Michael praised the study but pointed out that it doesn’t necessarily support the authors’ hope that other varieties of corn can be bred to have similar nitrogen-fixing properties.

Ted Radovich (TPSS, pictured) was one of the presenters, along with Rachel Novotny and Marie Fialkowski Revilla (both HNFAS), at the Symposium on Re-envisioning and Regenerating Agriculture Education through P-20 Partnerships sponsored by the P20 Agriculture Education Workgroup.

If you didn’t get a chance to hear Dr. Jonathan Latham’s presentation “Biotechnology, Agrichemicals, and the Value of Life,” don’t worry: there’s a video of the presentation he did in Kaua‘i. The presentation will also be shown on ‘Olelo.