The Field Crops Virtual Breakfast on April 29, 2021, will feature Ohio State University entomologist Kelley Tilmon discussing slug life cycle, early season impacts on crops, scouting and management strategies.
Join MSU and fellow growers for weekly Chestnut Chat series
You’re invited to join the Michigan chestnut community for a weekly, in-season discussion about chestnut production.
Michigan sweet chestnuts. Photo by Erin Lizotte, MSU Extension.
Michigan State University Extension will be hosting a series of interactive Chestnut Chat Zoom meetings this 2021 season to allow easy communication between producers and MSU faculty. These informal weekly sessions will include crop and pest updates from MSU Extension’s Rob Sirrine and Erin Lizotte. In addition, MSU faculty will drop in to address timely issues and provide research project updates. Bring your field notes too! We want to hear what’s going on in your orchard.
Unlock the door to food business expansion at the Making It In Michigan virtual conference
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The Michigan State University Product Center team is taking the Making It In Michigan Conference to a virtual format in 2021. The conference and trade show will be held from April 27 to May 6, 2021. The virtual conference will provide a space for Michigan food entrepreneurs to learn the keys to business expansion from business owners, advanced processors and distributors, University staff, and industry experts.
Is this virtual conference worth your time? During COVID-19, buyers are sourcing new products online and businesses are pivoting to adjust to the new industry. Participating in this virtual conference is a way to grow your production and distribution during this challenging time.
Women Shaping Agriculture: interview with Megghan Honke Seidel
April 1, 2021
Women Shaping Agriculture is an initiative in which MSU Extension educators host conversational interviews that enable women to share their experiences and perspectives about their diverse roles in Michigan agriculture.
Megghan with calves. Photo courtesy of Megghan Honke-Seidel
This article is part of the Women Shaping Agriculture initiative - a series of conversational interviews that enable women to share their experiences and perspectives about their diverse roles in Michigan agriculture.
For more than 16 years, Megghan Honke Seidel has served the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources and Michigan State University Extension, where she helps coordinate events and programs of all sizes and manages the college’s events management system. In addition to her role at MSU, Megghan, her husband, Bruce, and brother-in-law, Mike, own and operate a 1,000-head beef feedlot and 1,500 acre cropping ope
What to know about official identification for exhibition swine in 2021
April 1, 2021
Breeders, exhibitors, county fairs and exhibitions need to know these changes in acquiring official identification for show pigs.
Photo by Phil Roeder, CC BY 2.0
With the 2021 show season just around the corner, there are some important changes regarding swine tagging that breeders, exhibitors, county fairs and exhibitions must know. Public Act 466 (Animal Industry Act) requires pigs shown at fairs, exhibitions or shows must have official individual animal identification (ID). The requirement reflects a change in how the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (MDARD) will manage the animal identification program.