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U of A Division of Agriculture Hosts Southern Risk Management Education Center
Helping producers make the best decisions to achieve their business and family goals is the mission of the Southern Risk Management Education Center (SRMEC), operated by the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture.
The center will be directed by Dr. Ronald L. Rainey and Dr. Harold L. Goodwin, associate professor and professor of the department of agricultural economics and agribusiness. It is one of four regional centers nationwide that collaborate to educate growers. The center will be focused on the five areas of risk: production, marketing, financial, legal and human resources risks.
SRMEC will coordinate risk management education programs for 13 states from North Carolina to Texas, as well as Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Center activities will be guided by a highly diverse advisory committee.
Hosting the center will mean new advantages for Arkansans too, providing:
A collaboration between extension faculty in Little Rock and Fayetteville, the center is funded by an annual $1.2 million from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, part of USDA. The funds support operations, program development and programming. Information about the grants program is available on the center web site at http://srmec.uark.edu. There also is funding for the center to provide technical assistance to producers adversely affected by import competition.
The other centers are The Northeast Center for Risk Management Education, Delaware Extension; Western Center for Risk Management Education, Washington State Extension; and The North Central Risk Management Education Center, University of Nebraska - Lincoln Extension. There is a national center for risk management that houses the digital library and coordinates the Trade Adjustment Assistance activities. The Digital Center for Risk Management Education is operated by the University of Minnesota Extension Ag Risk Education Library.
Congratulations to the U of A Division of Agriculture staff for winning this important contract.
- Tony E. Windham
National 4-H Agents Association Honors Poling with Distinguished Service Award
Rich Poling, associate professor for Extension program development for the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture, has been honored with the Distinguished Service Award from the National Association of Extension 4-H Agents (NAE4-HA).
Poling received the award during the association’s 63rd annual conference October 25-29.
Membership in NAE4-HA has been very rewarding for Poling, in more ways than one.
"Some of the most enjoyable and rewarding times I’ve had in my extension career have been my involvement with the 4-H program, both as a county agent and as a state specialist," Poling said. "I even met my wife at a conference when we were both working as county 4-H agents in different states!"
The Distinguished Service Award is presented to a member of NAE4-HA based on work with professional associations, extension committees, professional improvement, personal accomplishments, personal interests and community contributions.
Poling has 33 years in extension work, including time as a county extension agent in Ohio from 1976-87 and as a state specialist in program evaluation and program development at Clemson University, the University of Tennessee and the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture.
He is a member and state officer of the Arkansas Association of Extension 4-H Agents.
- Mary Hightower
Monthly Gift Total Summary - September 2009
The following chart summarizes gifts and noncash gifts deposited in September 2009 to advance the programs of the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture Cooperative Extension Service.
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September 1 - 30, 2009 |
Fiscal Year 2010 |
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Monthly Gift Count |
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Fiscal |
Fiscal |
| CES Administration | 3 | $125.00 | 9 | $257.00 |
| Delta District | 4 | $440.07 | 16 | $1,311.65 |
| Ouachita District | 7 | $4,330.32 | 10 | $8,218.42 |
| Ozark District | 3 | $908.67 | 4 | $929.67 |
| 4-H Youth Development | 0 | $0.00 | 2 | $5,596.35 |
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Agriculture and Natural Resources |
24 | $271,464.00 | 50 | $445,239.00 |
| Community and Economic Development | 13 | $4,123.88 | 35 | $16,648.88 |
| Family and Consumer Sciences | 0 | $0.00 | 0 | $0.00 |
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Arkansas 4-H Foundation |
20 |
$14,232.50 |
83 |
$59,406.50 |
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TOTALS |
74 |
$295,624.44 |
209 |
$537,607.47 |
- Merritt Royal
Understanding Policies on Computer, Network Use
Please take a few minutes to review CESP 4-19, Computer and Network Use, and CESP 4-25, Management of E-mail. If you are a supervisor, please schedule a review of the contents of these policies with your staff and note, in particular, the following:
Goddard Earns APEN Educator of the Year Award
Dr. Wally Goddard, professor - family life, has been honored as the Arkansas Parent Educator of the Year by the Arkansas Parenting Education Network. The award was presented November 16 at the 11th annual APEN conference.
The APEN Parent Educator of the Year Award is presented to an outstanding practitioner of family support or parental engagement through the delivery of parent education. The recipient of this award demonstrates exceptional commitment to serving families and children through work as well as through personal action.
The winner is selected by voting members of the Arkansas Parenting Education Network.
- James Marshall
Espinoza an Invited Speaker at International Conference
Dr. Leo Espinoza, Extension soil scientist, was an invited speaker at the International Conference on the Use of Gypsum in Agriculture, organized by the Soil Science Society of America.
The conference took place in Pittsburgh, November 1-5.
Espinoza has also been invited to speak about Water and Fertilizer Use Efficiency in Cotton at a National Fertilizer Dealers Workshop in California in January.
He will also be speaking at an International Fertilizer Traders meeting to be held in Costa Rica, organized by British Sulfur. The meeting is set for January 19-22. Espinoza is the only invited academic and will be talking about current efforts to increase nitrogen use efficiency in agronomic crops.
Arkansas Hort Student Wins Regional Competition
Celina Gomez, master’s degree student in the University of Arkansas Horticulture Department, won first place in the student competition at the Southern Region International Plant Producers Society meeting in Biloxi, Mississippi on October 26.
The title of her paper was "Rooting of three ornamental plants in eight propagation substrates."
Her paper will be published in the IPPS Proceedings. Eight students submitted papers and two, including Gomez, were then selected to give an oral presentation at the conference.
To recognize her efforts, the society gave her a $500 travel grant and awarded her $1,000 for her first prize selection. Her major professor is Dr. James Robbins.
E-Mail Changes Coming in 2010
We will be making the transition from GroupWise to an outsourced e-mail service called Zimbra in the coming year.
This project has been postponed from last summer, but we will be proceeding after the holidays.
In preparation for this change, we would like to encourage GroupWise users to take advantage of the quiet period during the holidays to begin cleaning up their mailboxes.
If you need some assistance or advice with the task, please contact the IT Call Center at 671-2255 or 1-866-779-3375.
Be on the lookout for more news on the e-mail transition at the first of the year.
- Ed Erwin
Mark Your Calendars!
The Annual Division of Agriculture Awards Luncheon will be held at 11:30 a.m. on January 8, 2010, at the Little Rock Embassy Suites.
Grants and Contracts
| Project Title | Award Amount | Principal Investigator | Granting Agency |
| PTA for Business Firms | $613,044.00 | Sue Coates | Department of Defense |
| Southern Region Plant Diagnostic Network | $39,000.00 | Dr. Richard Cartwright | University of Florida |
| Ongoing Planning Support, Data Management and Continuing Review of the Arkansas Non-Point Source Adaptive Management Plan and Completion of the 2012-2015 Adaptive Management Plan | $486,775.00 | Tom Riley | Arkansas Natural Resources Commission |
| Arkansas Association of Conservation District Study | $10,000.00 | Dr. Wayne Miller | Arkansas Association of Conservation Districts |
| Beef Quality Assurance | $950.00 | Dr. Tom Troxel | Arkansas Beef Council |
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$1,149,769.00 |
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