Land-grants, collaborators launch Southern Ag Today digital platform
The platform offers daily peer-reviewed articles on topics including crop marketing, livestock marketing, farm management, agricultural policy, trade, and agricultural law.
June 2, 2023
By the U of A System Division of Agriculture
Fast facts
- More than a dozen universities, three entities cooperating on site
- Site offers insightful analysis for issues facing southern agriculture
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LITTLE ROCK — More than a dozen land-grant institutions, including the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture, have collaborated with three other entities to launch Southern Ag Today, a digital platform aimed at providing timely, concise and insightful analysis facing Southern agriculture.
Collaborators include the Southern Extension Economics Committee, the Agricultural and Food Policy Center at Texas A&M, and the Southern Risk Management Education Center at the Division of Agriculture, as well as land grants from across the South.
The platform offers daily peer-reviewed articles on topics including crop marketing, livestock marketing, farm management, agricultural policy, trade, and agricultural law. The platform features more than 100 contributors.
“Farmers of every size and background across the South continue to adapt to the challenging agriculture environment made worse by the pandemic, current macroeconomic trends, climate variability, and disrupted supply chains,” said Ron Rainey, assistant vice president for the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture and Southern Risk Management Education Center director.
“We hope Southern Ag Today is a valuable tool for all of our southern producers including socially disadvantaged, small, and beginning farmers, so they can feel confident in the decisions they’re making about their operations,” Rainey said.
The land grant partners are:
- Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service, part of the Division of Agriculture
- University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension
- Alabama A&M and Auburn as the Alabama Cooperative Extension System
- Texas A&M University AgriLife Extension
- University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture — Extension
- University of Georgia Extension
- Clemson Cooperative Extension
- North Carolina State University Extension
- Oklahoma State University Extension
- Mississippi State University Extension
- Extension University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences Extension
- Louisiana State University Ag Center Extension
- Alcorn State University Extension
- University of Maryland College of Ag and Natural Resources
- Virginia Cooperative Extension — Virginia Tech and Virginia State University.
To learn about extension programs in Arkansas, contact your local Cooperative Extension Service agent or visit www.uaex.uada.edu. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram at @AR_Extension. To learn more about Division of Agriculture research, visit the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station website: https://aaes.uada.edu/. Follow us on Twitter at @ArkAgResearch. To learn more about the Division of Agriculture, visit https://uada.edu/. Follow us on Twitter at @AgInArk.
About the Division of Agriculture
The University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture’s mission is to strengthen
agriculture, communities, and families by connecting trusted research to the adoption
of best practices. The Division of Agriculture conducts research and extension work
within the nation’s historic land grant education system through the Agricultural
Experiment Station and the Cooperative Extension Service.
The Division of Agriculture is one of 20 entities within the University of Arkansas
System. It has offices in all 75 counties in Arkansas and faculty on five system campuses.
The University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture offers all its Extension
and Research programs to all eligible persons without regard to race, color, sex,
gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, religion, age, disability, marital
or veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected status, and
is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.
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