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

A newsletter for faculty, staff and students

November-December 2005 • Vol. 31, No. 6

Grants Received in August and September

Agricultural Economics & Agribusiness

D. Rainey. Cooperative Extension Service. The Arkansas Tax System: Sources of revenue and their impact on households and business. $25,000.

H. Goodwin. US EPA. Utilization of poultry litter and municipal biosolids produced in NW Arkansas for crop fertilization in Eastern Arkansas. $49,998.

J. Redfern. Cooperative Extension Service. Research and analysis assessing resident perceptions of air and water quality in Northwest Arkansas and Northeast Oklahoma. $8,500.

Animal Sciences

C. Maxwell. Agtech Products. Alltech Biotechnology Center. Swine nutrition research. $35,353.

Biological & Agricultural Engineering

G. Huitink and S. Bajwa. Cotton Foundation. Precision farming technology for developing subsoiling guidelines in Arkansas. $3,000.

T. Costello. NASA. GSRP: Heat transfer within a hypobaric plant growth chamber. $24,000.

I. Chaubey and J. Popp. USDA CSREES. IREECGP (406). Effectiveness and optimization of BMPs in improving water quality from an agriculturally dominated watershed. $650,000.

I. Chaubey and M. Matlock. Arkansas Soil and Water Conservation Commission. Watershed response modeling in 11-digit priority watersheds in Arkansas. $76,104.

M. Matlock. Arkansas Soil and Water Commission. Adaptive management approach for review of the Arkansas NPS management plan. Demonstration of low impact development best management practices. $292,879.

College of Agriculture—ASU

 J. Widick. Syngenta Seeds. SoyGenetics. Chloride screening research. $1,600.

Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences

R. Bacon. B&S Seed Company. Small grain variety trials (wheat). $2,600.

L. Oliver. DuPont Agricultural Products. Weed science. $15,000.

T. Daniel, P. DeLaune and M. Cochran. Arkansas Soil and Water Conservation Commission. Edge of field water quality monitoring from various management practices in the Ozarks highlands. $298,347.

R. Norman. Foundation for Agronomic Research. Horizon Ag. Soil fertility and plant nutrition. $10,400.

D. Oosterhuis. Bayer CropScience. Rohm and Haas Co. Cotton research. $31,600.

J. Barrentine. Dow AgroSciences, LLC. Weed science. $10,000.

R. Bacon. Various Sources. Small grain variety trials (wheat). $21,000.

Entomology

F. Stephen. USDA FS. Revision and validation of the Arkansas SPBMODEL to improve accuracy and accessibility. $48,070.

A. Szalanski. BASF Corporation. Termite research. $25,000.

M. Meisch. Clarke Mosquito Control. Management methodologies. $5,000.

R. Luttrell. Monsanto Company. Dow AgroSciences, LLC. Cotton insect research. Phermone trap. $32,500.

Food Science

Y.-J. Wang. Various Sources. Carbohydrate research. $9,250.

A. Proctor. US Department of Education. Renewable resources in clean technology. $85,419.

L. Howard. Bush Brothers & Company. Thermal processing research. $15,000.

R. Buescher. Lauritzen Inc. Value-added pickled vegetable research. $150.

Horticulture

M. Evans. Riceland Foods, Inc. Sun Gro Horticulture. Development of processed rice hulls as an alternative to sphagnum peat and rockwool in horticulture growing media. Research and educational programs—HORT. Greenhouse crops research. $103,709.

M. Richardson. Various Sources. Grass research. $32,200.

T. Morelock. Winter Garden Spinach Producers Board. Cucumbers, spinach and peas research. $8,000.

Human Environmental Sciences

J. Foote. US Department of Education (Prime). Nutrition component for the coordinated school health and physical education program at Concord Public School. $1,500.

T. Killian. USDA CSREES. NRICGP. Assistance that older persons received from adult children: longitudinal differences across the rural continuum. $252,000.

Interdisciplinary—Experiment Station

J. Popp, C. Rom and D. Johnson. USDA CSREES—Prime. Southern IPM. Development of a Southern Regional IPM Organic Tree Fruit Working Group. $10,000.

Plant Pathology

J. Rupe. North Central Soybean Research Program. Ameribrom, Inc. Sentinel plots to monitor the spread of Asian soybean rust in the US soybean production regions. Soybean disease research. $20,000.

C. Rothrock. Bayer CropScience. Cotton research. $7,000.

R. Robbins. Delta and Pine Land Co. Nematode research. $1,200.

R. Riggs. Monsanto Company. Soybean nematode research. $5,000.

Poultry Science

W. Kuenzel. National Science Foundation. Location and neuroendocrine function of putative encephalic photoreceptors. $53,558.

J. Emmert. USDA CSREES—Prime. SARE. Small-scale poultry training. $27,630.

N. Pumford and W. Bottje. USDA SBIR Prime. A biodetector for rapid on-site screening of breeder chickens with high feed efficiency. $30,538.

K. Bramwell. Cobb-Vantress, Inc. Effects of incubation temperature on live performance and skeletal development of broilers. $13,168.

Rice Research & Extension Center

K. Moldenhauer. BASF Corporation. RREC genetic research. $5,000.

M. Anders. Flexible Solutions. Crop systems research. $700.

School of Forest Resources

 D. White. Arkansas Game and Fish Commission. The ecology of the bull elk in Arkansas. $60,000.

R. Kluender. USDA CSREES. Special Grant. Arkansas Forest Resources Center: A Continuing Program, Phase XII. $430,584.

H. Liechty. Cooperative Extension Service. Research identifying and addressing social constraints involved with the use of prescribed fire in forest ecosystems of the Ouachita and Ozark regions of Arkansas. $23,483.

P. Doruska. Deltic Timber Corporation. Hardwood research. $1,500.

Southwest Research & Extension Center

P. Beck. Barenbrug USA. Beef cattle. $1,800.

T. Kirkpatrick. Bayer CropScience. Plant disease. $3,000.