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Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture
Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences

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Aug. 15, 2007

1. Arkansas Wins Southern Region Weed Science Contest

2. Herring to be Honored

3. Poultry Science Students Win Presentation Awards

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1. Arkansas Wins Southern Region Weed Science Contest

 
Arkansas Weed Team. From left, front: Fabiane Lamego, Landon Ries, Franklin Lyons, Sanjeev Bangarwa, Nilda Burgos (coach). Back row: Gregory Sivils and Jason Norsworthy (coach).  

The UA Weed Team sponsored by the Department of Crop, Soil, and Environmental Sciences won the Southern Regional Weed Science Contest Aug. 9 at the Syngenta Research Center in Vero Beach, Fla.

The Arkansas team of Sanjeev Bangarwa, Franklin Lyons, Landon Ries, Gregory Sivils, Fabiane Lamego (alternate) and coaches Nilda Burgos and Jason Norsworthy outscored six other teams, including Auburn, Florida, LSU, Mississippi State, North Carolina State and Tennessee.

The Arkansas team retained the coveted “Broken Hoe Trophy” for another year as the team notched its 21st win in 27 years since the contest’s inception. Twelve of those wins occurred in the last 14 years.

Students competed in five categories of weed identification, herbicide identification through phytotoxicity symptoms on multiple crop and weed species, mathematical calibration problems, solving farmer problems, and sprayer calibration. Bangarwa posted the highest score on Weed ID and Math set and placed second high individual overall. Ries placed fourth and Lyons was seventh high individual overall.
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2. Herring to be Honored

Don Herring, who retired in July as head of the Department of Agricultural and Extension Education, will receive the VIP Award from the National FFA Organization at the national convention in Indianapolis Oct. 26.

Herring was also selected to receive the National Association of Agricultural Education Region II Lifetime Achievement Award to be presented at the National NAAE Conference in Las Vegas in December.
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3. Poultry Science Students Win Presentation Awards

Four Poultry Science graduate students won first place awards for paper presentations at the Poultry Science Association’s annual meeting July 9-13 in San Antonio: Ixchel Reyes-Herrera, Vivian Aguiar, and Fausto Solis de los Santos, all graduate students of Dr. Dan Donoghue; and Lakshmi Kannan, graduate student of Dr. Narayan Rath.

Reyes-Herrera also received the Nicholas Student Paper Award and $500 for her research presentation on turkeys.

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