DEPARTMENT OF
Family and Consumer Sciences
Food insecurity is everyone’s business. The Academic and Student Affairs Office is happy to announce that the CTAHR FoodStack has recently been refilled!
If you’re a CTAHR undergraduate or graduate student, please feel free to stop by the CTAHR Student Lounge in Gilmore Hall and pick up some items for you to enjoy.
The annual meeting and convention of the Hawaiʻi Cattlemen's Council will look a bit different this year by going online, but “we will still have a great line-up of educational speakers, opportunities to connect, and an online auction!” says Mark Thorne, Range and Livestock Extension Specialist.
Forty-eight cars and trucks took their turns, driving thru the grounds of the Urban Garden Center for a well-deserved chance to vote on their favorite Halloween decoration, and receive tools generously donated by City Mill, as well as other tokens of mahalo! from the Hawai‘i Department of Agriculture, UH Agricultural Diagnostic Service Center, UH Bookstore, and CTAHR.
The USDA’s Priority Pest List for 2021 includes Ralstonia solanacearum race 3 biovar 2, a bacterium better known as a bacterial wilt. It infects through the roots and is deadly to plants, and is the subject of new grant funding for the University of Guam under the USDA’s Plant Protection Act.
Coffee leaf rust (CLR) has been confirmed by the U.S Dept. of Agriculture from coffee plant samples collected on Maui last week. In response, the Hawai`i Dept. of Agriculture (HDOA) began statewide surveys and has detected suspect plants on Hawai`i Island.
If you require information in an alternative format, please contact us at: FCS-ADA@ctahr.hawaii.edu