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UT AgResearch advances science in agriculture and food systems, natural resource management, and family and consumer sciences. We do this through the discovery of new knowledge, the innovation of these discoveries into new products and processes, and the application of these innovations to enhance the lives of citizens of Tennessee and the world.

Winter 2023 UT AgResearch IMPACTS eNewsletter
Our Fall 2023 UT AgResearch IMPACTS eNewsletter is now available online!
UTIA Hosts National Meeting of the Research Center Administrators Society
Congratulations to Dr. Scott Schlarbaum for receiving the 2023 TFA Forest Resources Award. A well-deserved honor for Scott’s impactful TN Tree Improvement Program and many others.
UTIA Professors Forbes Walker and Shawn Hawkins received the 2023 Governor’s Environmental Stewardship Award for Environmental Education and Outreach.
UTIA and TSU hold successful inaugural Joint Research Summit
UTIA and AgResearch were well-represented at the recent Circular Bioeconomy Systems (CBS) Day event held at the 2023 Annual ASABE Conference in Omaha, Nebraska.
UTIA Hosts 2023 National Extension and Research Administrative Officers Conference (NERAOC)
The second U.S. Precision Livestock Conference was hosted by the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture in Knoxville on May 21-23, 2023
A ribbon cutting event for the new robotic milker facility on the Little River Unit of the East Tennessee AgResearch and Education Center was held on May 2, 2023.
A team of UTIA faculty and staff will oversee the research for designing, installing, and managing the stadium fields and training fields for the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
The University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture recognized some of its top faculty, staff, researchers and Extension experts at UTIA’s annual Awards and Promotions luncheon on the UTIA campus in Knoxville August 16, 2022.
Researchers from the UTIA Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics have received funding to conduct a study of beef producers as part of an effort to develop innovative price risk management tools that help improve U.S. beef cattle producers’ economic sustainability.
UT Institute of Agriculture Presents Top Faculty and Staff Awards for 2022
Working closely with their partners, AgResearch scientists explore year-round kale production in the Fresh Electric Farm, an example of producing premium plants in controlled environments. Image provided by UTIA.
UTIA AgResearch Dean, Hongwei Xin, was awarded the Kishida International Award by the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers in July 2022.
Taken from Channel 8, WVLT News: University of Tennessee professors studying food waste. According to the USDA, more than a third of all food is wasted. Americans throw away 200 million tons of food each year.
Eda lab student researchers Haley Channel (left) and Veronica Hafner (right), and research associate Jay Ramos (middle) are working to develop an antemortem test for detection of chronic wasting disease.
The UT Precision Livestock Farming program advances livestock and poultry production through the use of real-time monitoring of images, sounds and other biological, physiological and environmental parameters to assess and improve individual animal health and well-being within herd or flock production systems.
Researchers at the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture have been awarded nearly $500,000 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture to improve productivity, resiliency and overall health of eastern grasslands.
The UT One Health Initiative (UTOHI) is a new effort by the University of Tennessee System focusing upon rapidly emerging challenges and transformational discoveries that interactively improve human, animal, plant, and environmental health.
UT AgResearch and Education Centers will host eighteen field days in 2023, providing visitors a chance to see agricultural research in action, speak with university experts, and network with industry professionals.
With a four-year grant from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, a University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture research and Extension team will study different two-way diversification strategies to determine best cover crop management from among a variety of combinations being used in the southeast United States.
UTIA is the first academic institution to enroll in The Nature Conservancy’s Working Woodlands Program. UT’s Forest Resources AgResearch and Education Center manages some 11,400 acres of forests, including the UT Arboretum.
UT AgResearch and Education Centers have a significant impact on the Tennessee economy. In 2018, expenditures resulted in a total impact over $19 million.
Researchers at the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture have been awarded a $156,000 grant to examine value-added opportunities for marketing cattle.
The Plateau AgResearch and Education Center conducts research in areas of the efficiency of livestock enterprises, fruit and vegetable production and marketing, soil fertility, and conservation research.

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