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Family and Consumer Sciences
Perennial plants offer ecological advantages over annual crops, so plant biologist Michael Kantar works to develop commercially viable perennial alternatives to current grain and oilseed crops, which must be replanted every year.
Videos on the life cycle of bees and apian role in the rise of flowering plants captured national entomology awards for a CTAHR-led team.
Bred under the direction of the Mealani Research Station staff, CTAHR bulls rank among the top 5% of Angus in the country and are free of a common genetic disorder.
Entomologist Helen Spafford says a recent German study reporting a dramatic decline in insect populations sounds an alarm and “we need to wake up.”
Agritourism expert and one of “five women rocking” the Hawai‘i food scene Pomai Weigert has joined GoFarm as an agbusiness consultant.
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