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Dr. Ivory W. Lyles |
The Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES) and its land-grant partners, such as the Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service, recognize the importance of diversity and inclusion in the development and implementation of Extension programs. For this reason, Cooperative Extension takes proactive steps to do self-assessments to measure the progress made towards making certain that program opportunities are available to all residents within each county.
To document those efforts, policies and templates have been created for counties to record outreach demographics. However, some of these policies and templates have become outdated, making it difficult and often confusing for our county personnel to document their efforts.
Consequently, administration is currently working with the civil rights compliance Officer to review and revise our civil rights collection policies and templates. In the next week or so, a revised Civil Rights Compliance Review template, A.F.F.A.C.T. #1, will be placed in our policy manual. The changes to the document reflect the removal of obsolete language and the addition of information that will better assist the county personnel in documenting civil rights data. Please watch for additional revisions and changes in the future that we hope will better assist our county personnel in reporting their successes in making our programs available to all the residents in their counties.
- Ivory W. Lyles
4-H Faculty Recognized With ACE Silver Award
Congratulations to Dr. Darlene Baker Millard, Dr. Connie Phelps, Brian Helms and Lisa Ferris. They have been recognized with an ACE Silver Award for work they submitted in the 2008 Critique and Awards Program sponsored by the Association for Communication Excellence (ACE). Their entry, "Organizing 4-H Clubs - Online Course for County Extension Agents," received the honor in Class 34b - Educational project, non-credit.
The award will be presented during this year’s ACE international meeting on June 10-13 at Traverse City, Michigan.
- Ivory W. Lyles
Priester National Extension Health Conference Multi-County Awards
The Priester National Extension Health Conference celebrates Cooperative Extension’s long history of promoting health and preventing disease for individuals of every age and background, in families of all types, living in rural, suburban and urban communities. Named in honor of retired CSREES National Program Leader Jeanne Priester, the conference showcases the successful programs of Extension professionals, their community and organizational partners and their students. The 2008 conference was held on April 8-10 in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina.
A highlight of the conference is always the Jeanne M. Priester Award Luncheon. The purpose of the award is to honor Extension programs that are positively impacting the health of people across the United States, and that are providing the leadership to expand Extension’s capacity to effectively implement health programs. The Priester Award recognizes sound and innovative health education programs on the county, state and national level. Two awards are given, one on the county/multicounty level and one on the state/multi-state level. This is a very competitive award with nominations from all over the country.
We in family and consumer sciences are pleased to announce that the Ouachita multi-county FCS agents, Lisa Gilmore, Kaye Shrout, Cheryl Maxwell and Lameria Colclough, won the County/Multi-County Award for Strong Women. We are very proud of their accomplishment as this is a very prestigious national Extension award.
- LaVona Traywick
Pesticide Collection Program Successful in Four Delta Counties
Outdated and abandoned pesticides present difficult problems for row crop producers. Many products once used are now off label and illegal for use. For the farmer who has leftover products, legal disposal and incineration is cost-prohibitive.
Fortunately the Abandoned Pesticide Disposal Act has provided limited funding to aid in the cleanup and disposal effort. During late March, four Delta counties (Desha, Monroe, Chicot and Phillips) were selected for the program.
County agents held planning meetings twice with representatives from the Arkansas State Plant Board, Farm Bureau, District Conservation Boards, each county judge and Kelby Neal from Phillips Service Corporation.
Growers were notified of collection days through newsletters, radio announcements, personal contacts and posters placed at numerous area businesses. Local businesses provided collection sites and machinery such as forklifts and tractors.
Over 160,000 pounds of pesticides were collected and shipped via tractor trailer for safe disposal. As funds continue to become available, the program will continue to spread into counties yet to host the event.
- Steve Kelley
Central High School Students Make Biofuel
Can you imagine making diesel fuel for 70 cents per gallon? It can be done. The students in the Advanced Science and Theoretical Research class at Central High School recently made biofuel at the Rice Research and Extension Center at Stuttgart. Twenty students traveled to the RREC and participated in a hands-on experiment of making biofuel from vegetable oil, soybean oil and used oils. Dr. Samy Sadaka, Extension engineer, Biological and Agricultural Engineering, demonstrated to the students how this could be done at home or on the farm. We could have put the fuel in the tank of the bus!
- Samy Sadaka
Spring 2008 Walk Across Arkansas: 100 Teams for 100 Years of 4-H
This year, FCS and 4-H joined together to help celebrate the 4-H Centennial. Our goal was to have 100 teams in Walk Across Arkansas to represent the 100 years of 4-H. We exceeded our goal by having 101 teams registered walking a total of 89,112.31 miles. The awards for Walk Across Arkansas were announced at the 4-H 5-K on April 19, with Walk Across Arkansas team members who participated in the 5-K receiving special recognition.
The winners of Walk Across Arkansas are as follows:
Most Miles Walked
Most Improved:
Agent Winners:
As always, Walk Across Arkansas could not be the success it is without help. I would like to give special thanks this year to Tony Baker and Priscella Thomas, who helped coordinate Walk Across Arkansas with the 4-H 5-K, Denise Roulhac for data management, Dr. Wayne Miller for the statistical analysis, Dr. Anne Sortor for sponsoring this year’s awards, and most importantly, to all the agents who supported Walk Across Arkansas in their counties.
- LaVona Traywick
Grants and Contracts
| Project Title | Award Amount | Principal Investigator | Granting Agency |
| Production of Biofuels from Crop Residues | $50,000.00 | Samy Sadaka | U.S. Department of Agriculture |
| Rice Verification | $144,386.00 | Chuck Wilson | Rice Research Promotion Board |
| Weed Management in Rice | $108,501.00 | Bob Scott | Rice Research Promotion Board |
| Rice Diseases | $114,841.00 | Richard Cartwright | Rice Research Promotion Board |
| Rice Water Management | $30,900.00 | Phil Tacker | Rice Research Promotion Board |
| Rice Insect Management Technology | $35,494.00 | Gus Lorenz | Rice Research Promotion Board |
| 4-H Education Programs and Uniform Funding from the City of Paragould | $10,000.00 | Quinton Hornsby | City of Paragould |
| Greene County 4-H Leadership Development Funds | $5,000.00 | Allen Davis | United Way of Northeast Arkansas |
| Cotton Research Verification/Applied Research | $31,073.00 | Tom Barber | Cotton Incorporated |
| Current Economic Status of Conservation and No-Till Cotton Production in the Southeastern United States Working Group, Arkansas | $3,450.00 | Kelly Bryant | Cotton Incorporated |
| Corn Verification | $108,930.00 | Jason Kelley | Corn & Grain Promotion Board |
| Soil Fertility Requirements for Corn 22,518.00 Leo Espinoza Corn & Grain Promotion Board Economic Analysis of Corn & Grain Sorghum | $5,784.00 | Scott Stiles | Corn & Grain Promotion Board |
| Remote Sensing of Stress Areas in Corn Fields to Prevent Aflatoxin | $25,066.00 | Scott Monfort | Corn & Grain Promotion Board |
| Management of Grain Sorghum Diseases in Arkansas | $35,000.00 | Richard Cartwright | Corn & Grain Promotion Board |
| Practicality Evaluation of Grain Storage Techniques | $30,500.00 | Dennis Gardisser | Corn & Grain Promotion Board |
| Developing Planting Date Guidelines for Arkansas Corn | $40,980.00 | Jason Kelley | Corn & Grain Promotion Board |
| Improving Technology Transfer for Profitable Corn and Grain Sorghum Production in Arkansas | $28,480.00 | Jason Kelley | Corn & Grain Promotion Board |
| Assessment of the Importance of Nematodes and Foliar Disease in Corn in Arkansas | $40,000.00 | Scott Monfort | Corn & Grain Promotion Board |
| Site-specific Determination of In-Season Corn Nutrient and Nutrient and pH Variability under Arkansas Growing Conditions | $33,226.00 | Dharmendra Saraswat | Corn & Grain Promotion Board |
| Evaluating the Length of Residual Activity and Rain-fastness of Recommended Foliar Insecticides Against Southwestern Corn Borers | $10,712.00 | Glenn Studebaker | Corn & Grain Promotion Board |
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$914,841.00 |
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