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WHO, WHAT,
WHEN,
WHERE
HEADLINES
UA professor named to Altheimer Soybean Chair
SWREC assesses windstorm damage
Division of Agriculture to operate state poultry testing lab
Wow! Students will do DNA fingerprinting in teaching lab
Don Hubbell named Livestock and Forestry Branch Station director
Gifts provide new scholarships, graduate student award
Bob and Hazel Spitze receive philanthropy award
Paul Beck appointed assistant professor
Delta Classic raises CSES scholarship funds
Farm Bureau conference to focus on the future
GSD celebrates 50th anniversary
27 attend Poultry Science Youth Conference
Local Master Gardeners lend a hand with fruit research
Bumpers College hosts Gifted and Talented group
Bumpers College sponsors Livestock Judging Camp
Farm Bureau awards scholarships
Summer orientation greets students
RECENT NEWS RELEASES
Poultry Science Youth Conference held at the University of Arkansas (with 2 photos)
Local Master Gardeners lend a hand with fruit research (with 1 photo)
Adding selenium to beef offers health benefits for consumers (with 1 photo)
UA Animal Scientist Receives Alltech Medal (with 3 photos)June 2004
Rice growers, millers, users focus on quality at UA conference (with 1 photo)
SWREC assesses windstorm damage (with 4 photos)
Researchers study impact of humans on public lands
UA expands genetic base for cotton breeders (with 1 photo)
UA Livestock Judging Camp prepares 4-H, FFA students for competition (with 2 photos)
UA shows non-toxic endophyte at international symposium (with 1 photo) May 2004
Time is money in transgenic variety development (with 2 photos)
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Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences
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Agricultural Experiment Station, University
of Arkansas Division of Agriculture
Dale
Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences
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newsletter for faculty, staff and students
July-August 2004 • Vol. 30, No. 4
Don Hubbell named Livestock and Forestry Branch Station director
Donald S. Hubbell III was named resident director of the Livestock and Forestry Branch Experiment Station near Batesville on May 15. He had served as interim director since the retirement of Dr. Kenneth Harrison.
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Don
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A native of Mountain Home, Hubbell joined the branch station’s staff in 1982 after receiving a B.S. degree in animal science. He managed the dairy and beef cattle research herds for 13 years. In 1996, the dairy operation was replaced with a stocker calf research unit. He was promoted to Research Associate II in 1996 and supervised all of the beef cattle research until 1999, when he was assigned responsibility for the stocker calf research and assisted with the cow-calf research.
He is a member of the Independence County Farm Bureau board of directors, vice president of Independence/Jackson Co. Cattlemen’s Association and serves on the Independence County 4-H Foundation Board.
Hubbell and his wife, Carolyn, who teaches Family and Consumer Sciences at Cushman High School, have two sons, Adam, 21, who is a Bumpers College senior in hospitality and restaurant management, and Derek, 18, a senior at Batesville High School.
Improvements underway at the branch station include renovation to expand cow-calf research with the Ark Plus novel endophyte fescue and Kentucky 31 endophyte infected fescue. Research trials will begin in the fall of 2004 and will be expanded to include more acres and cattle in the fall of 2005.
Other activities include doubling the number of receiving pens for the stocker calf research area to expand the number and types of receiving trials. Several cooperative stocker cattle trials involving scientists from Hope, Stuttgart and Fayetteville campuses are being initiated and implemented at this location.
The Forestry program from UA-Monticello
is initiating the planting of different species of oak trees, pine forest
management and wildlife management protocols to begin this summer and
fall at the branch station.