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• College and campus enrollment at record highs

• Division promotes sustainability

• New faculty members enrich variety of programs

• Chair holder is culinary tourism expert

• Childcare center architects approved

• Kent Rorie joins Vice President's staff

• New issue of 'Discovery'

• Arkansas wins national IFT College Bowl

• Savoy forest used for research, extension projects

• Turfgrass specialist receives national award

• Weed science team wins Southern Region Contest

• Faculty member's colleagues host benefit concert

• 'Corps of Discovery' lecture scheduled

• New soybean variety described at Pine Tree Field Day

• NEREC observes 50th anniversary at field day

• Vegetable Substation hosts Southern Pea Field Day

• Field day features turfgrass programs

• Food science sponsors MasterFoods USA summer interns

• Habitat project selected for USGBC study

• Johnson consults on blackberries in Nanjing

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Vegetable Substation hosts Southern Pea Field Day

Dennis Motes, resident director of the Vegetable Substation at Kibler, left, looks at southern pea varieties with Bill Gephardt, field representative for Allens Inc., during a field day Aug. 15.

Southern pea producers and processors had a look at pea breeding and research plots during a field day Aug. 15 at the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture's Vegetable Substation near Alma. Southern peas, also known as cowpeas or field peas, include blackeye peas, purple hull peas and other popular peas. They are grown commercially in the Arkansas River Valley, primarily for vegetable canning companies, and are also a popular garden vegetable.

UA breeder Teddy Morelock told field day visitors that the breeding program has released 19 southern pea varieties since it began in 1940. The most successful of these is "Early Scarlet," a pinkeye variety released in 1995 that has become a favorite of canning companies in Arkansas and neighboring states.

Weed scientist Nilda Burgos working with Morelock to find southern pea breeding lines with improved tolerance to Reflex, an alternative to Roundup, for which some weeds are developing tolerance.

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