Ep. 12 – Oklahoma State University: Wildlife Food Plot Budgeting Tool
Morning Coffee and Ag Markets Podcast
Media Contact
Mary Hightower
U of A System Division of Agriculture
(501) 671-2006 | mhightower@uada.edu
Welcome to Morning Coffee and Ag Markets!
Join Riley and Ryan in this insightful episode of Morning Coffee and Ag Markets as they dive into the OSU Wildlife Food Plot Budgeting Tool. They’ll explore how this innovative tool can transform your land management strategies and enhance your hunting opportunities.
Discover the economic impact of well-planned food plots, from improving wildlife habitats to maximizing the return on your agricultural investments. Riley and Ryan will break down budgeting tips, best practices, and real-world applications that can help you make informed decisions for your land.
Grab your coffee and tune in for a discussion that blends agricultural economics with practical insights for landowners and hunters alike!
Wildlife Food Plot Budgeting guide and tool
A Practical Guide to Food Plots in the Southern Great Plains
Wildlife Food Plot Budgeting Tool
Riley Smith, Program Associate
Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness
rsmith@uada.edu
Ryan Loy, Assistant Professor and Extension Agricultural Economist
Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness
rloy@uada.edu
Transcript
00;00;07;13 – 00;00;09;24
Dr. Ryan Loy
He’s talking about like loading the front end versus.
00;00;09;24 – 00;00;10;29
Riley Smith
The back there. You’re saying with it.
00;00;10;29 – 00;00;14;05
Dr. Ryan Loy
Oh, I don’t know the saying. Know I’m a cattle cattle guy like you.
00;00;14;06 – 00;00;24;27
Riley Smith
You you load the front end tight just so if you had to squeeze in 1 or 2 on the back and you’ve got room, there you go. So you always load the front end up. Yeah.
00;00;25;03 – 00;00;25;23
Dr. Ryan Loy
The, the front end.
00;00;25;23 – 00;00;30;12
Riley Smith
Little part in the back. Or if you’ve got to put a 1 or 2 extra on, you’ve got enough for him to do it.
00;00;30;15 – 00;00;32;11
Dr. Ryan Loy
It’s interesting. That’s interesting.
00;00;32;19 – 00;00;52;11
Riley Smith
But anyway. Well good morning. Good morning. Welcome to another episode of Morning Coffee and AG Markets with your host Riley Smith. This episode, we’re, we’re going to kick our feet up and have a little fun with it. I know you guys are out there, grinding every day, trying to get your harvest, trying to get your crop out of the field.
00;00;52;13 – 00;01;14;02
Riley Smith
And I know lately we’ve been talking about a lot of hot topics, and some of it’s not so friendly and good news. So we figured with this episode, we would actually do something that was a little bit more upbeat, I guess a little more exciting, and kind of changed the path of things. It still involves, producers and growers, but we’ve got Doctor Ryan with us today.
00;01;14;02 – 00;01;20;06
Riley Smith
He’s, joining me in the studio, but this is going to be kind of my my, I’m hosting slash talking today.
00;01;20;06 – 00;01;23;19
Dr. Ryan Loy
Yeah. This is your baby today. And I’m excited to see what you talk about. Yeah.
00;01;23;22 – 00;01;30;02
Riley Smith
You’ve got some knowledge on this tool as well. I believe is your, predecessor that was, that created this.
00;01;30;02 – 00;01;45;27
Dr. Ryan Loy
Well, it was one of my mentors, at Oklahoma State, and I hunted with him a lot. We’ve spent a lot of hours in the deer, Deer blind together and planting food plots and a lot of things we did in Oklahoma. And so Doctor Eric, to visit Oklahoma State, put this tool together to kind of help with some wildlife food plot budgets.
00;01;45;27 – 00;01;53;19
Dr. Ryan Loy
And, Courtney Bir, who’s also one of my mentors at Oklahoma State, kind of assisted in this developmental process. So we’re going to be talking about that today.
00;01;53;25 – 00;02;18;23
Riley Smith
Yeah. So you might be thinking, okay, this is University of Arkansas. Why are we talking about an OSU tool. Well, we besides working together with, our surrounding our neighboring states, neighboring schools. I’m going to put on my other hat for a minute and step aside from being an economist and step into my work clothes into into my walking around clothes is I like to put it.
00;02;18;25 – 00;02;41;11
Riley Smith
So for those that don’t know me or know me, I’m a very big hunter. That was a large part of my heritage. Was growing up, chasing white tails and chasing the mallards through the vinity bottoms. And, did a little rabbit hunt and loved to squirrel hunt. And then pretty much if it if it ran, scurried, went up a tree, flew.
00;02;41;12 – 00;03;02;18
Riley Smith
Whatever we wish for would probably throw in some steel or some lead or some arrows at it. But that’s that’s what I grew up doing. Older I got, the more involved I got into the conservation portion of it. And, that would be like your food plants, your land management, getting into that portion of it.
00;03;02;20 – 00;03;27;28
Riley Smith
When I got into my degree, that allowed me to look at, I guess, the conservation side of it, the land management portion side of it, as you would farming. So you’re basically farming for wildlife. And what I love about this tool is, is that you’re able to put in the economics of this into your hunting, into the wildlife, and into the wildlife world, the conservative or not conservation conservation world.
00;03;28;01 – 00;03;54;26
Riley Smith
We’re able to to keep track of what we do with these food plots. And I say we I’m talking about the general public because, you know, a lot of these producers. And that’s why I like having you in here today. So I’m able to bounce it off, you know, absolutely bounces off of you. But a lot of producers, whether they’re in the Arkansas county or if they’re in Poinsett County or wherever in Benton, Washington County.
00;03;54;26 – 00;04;15;08
Riley Smith
Right. Producers that being row crop or cattle farmers or whoever, a lot of them hunting, is it part of their heritage as well? So you’ve got guys is planting duck plots, you got guys planting food plots for deer. You’ve got all this. Well, you think about it and you’re like, well, we do this every year because we want to kill ducks.
00;04;15;08 – 00;04;18;12
Riley Smith
We want to kill deer, we want to kill, in.
00;04;18;14 – 00;04;33;05
Dr. Ryan Loy
And more importantly, in some in some aspects as well, in a lot of aspects. And you know this better than anybody. You know, them planting an economically feasible food plot is going to determine how much they’re going to make in the off season from hunters that come and hunt their land. Right.
00;04;33;08 – 00;04;59;25
Riley Smith
So where we’re going with all of this is this tool that OSU, that Doctor Eric and Doctor Courtney come up with and built allows you to do an economic treatment on your food plots on your ground. There’s different ways you could go with this. Now we’re going to start with the, production aspect of it. So everybody talks about how much seed fertilizer they’re putting into their place.
00;04;59;28 – 00;05;21;21
Riley Smith
Well, do you actually know how much you’re putting into it? Well, by doing by using this tool, you’re able to break out, break down your seed costs for the amount of seed blend you have. They also have production guides on this, your seed rate per pounds and your price per pounds on that seed price. With that, you’re able to get a dollar per acre amount.
00;05;21;23 – 00;05;47;02
Riley Smith
So now you’re able to calculate a total seed cost. And then on the fertilizer aspect of it, you’re able to amount, you’re able to figure out your N, P, and K, which is a big deal because a lot of times if you’re serious about it, if you’re a land developer, if you’re, a guy that manages properties, that manages hunting clubs, you’re going to go out and do a soil sample after each year, right?
00;05;47;05 – 00;06;07;04
Riley Smith
Or after each season to figure out, okay, what do I need to put on for next year’s food plots source, whether that be a spring food plot or fall food plot? So now you can break this down into fertilizer and figure up how much you’re getting or what the total cost of that fertilizer price is per acre and lime cost.
00;06;07;06 – 00;06;28;26
Riley Smith
And then you can also then it goes into pesticides. So you can incorporate or even herbicides at that matter for what you’re going to spray. And, and so each one of these is just like you would farming commercial Farm, you would actually get a total amount dollars per acre and figure out how much you’re actually investing into this ground.
00;06;28;28 – 00;06;56;06
Riley Smith
Now, what’s the importance of this? The importance of it, of this is if you are a land developer or say you’re a, real estate, a realtor, right? Say you’re flipping properties and you’re buying these properties, putting all this work into it from a land management portion, and you’re selling these properties for hunting, prop or hunting ground for hunting club, for whatever you have now you have an accurate amount per acre.
00;06;56;07 – 00;07;09;04
Riley Smith
That’s right. And you know how much you have in it as well as the time portion of it, because this don’t only calculates that dollar per acre on your input cost, but you can also calculate in your time and your labor.
00;07;09;04 – 00;07;30;01
Dr. Ryan Loy
That’s right. And you know, some of the things you’ve been talking about, just being able to see these costs will help. You know, you can be a little bit more cost effective in your food plots. And as you mentioned, and as you alluded to, doing these food plots, you know, year over year and conserving the land as such and being a good steward of the land only benefits you when you go to sell that land.
00;07;30;02 – 00;07;33;10
Riley Smith
Right? So now you’re talking about appreciation of the, of the property.
00;07;33;10 – 00;07;34;19
Dr. Ryan Loy
That’s right.
00;07;34;21 – 00;07;41;15
Riley Smith
You could go on and build houses, but I’m talking this specifically from a conservation stand point.
00;07;41;15 – 00;07;42;09
Dr. Ryan Loy
That’s right.
00;07;42;11 – 00;08;02;16
Riley Smith
From a steward, a steward of their ground, from the land, a wildlife guy. Somebody is going to be hunting or or creating properties for people to hunt. But now you have an idea of how much it is. Now you’re thinking, okay, so what’s the point of all this if I know exactly how much I’m putting into it? Well, what’s your ROI?
00;08;02;16 – 00;08;03;01
Riley Smith
00;08;03;04 – 00;08;12;04
Dr. Ryan Loy
Yeah, you’re ROI. I mean, it’s going to be in this case if you’re talking in the in the interest of hunting, your ROI is not going to necessarily be the grain you sell at the end or what the food is.
00;08;12;04 – 00;08;14;07
Riley Smith
You’re still you’re still harvesting something right.
00;08;14;07 – 00;08;15;14
Dr. Ryan Loy
You’re still harvesting your deer.
00;08;15;14 – 00;08;46;26
Riley Smith
Deer you’re harvesting. It’s that emotional value that you get when you’re in in people that hunt, if you’re listening, they will understand when they refer. If they have a child, the first deer that their child kills, or they take a kid and the first deer they ever kill, or the first duck they ever kill, or you take your daddy hunting and he’s the one that took you growing up, and there’s so much of an emotional value in it as well as you’re helping the ground in the wildlife as well.
00;08;46;26 – 00;08;52;19
Riley Smith
That’s right. So there’s your r, there’s your return on investment. That’s where you can figure up. Okay.
00;08;52;22 – 00;08;56;24
Dr. Ryan Loy
The better land steward you are, the more cost effective I am for being that land.
00;08;56;24 – 00;09;16;16
Riley Smith
So now we’re creating an opportunity cost for you to have and and and I’m, I’m touching on the, the emotional portion of it. But there’s also guys out there’s like they’re all there. I’m, I’m I’m just as guilty. I’m a trophy hunter. I like to kill big deer to who doesn’t who doesn’t, who, who don’t want to. But you know, the trophy is in the eye of the beholder.
00;09;16;22 – 00;09;33;13
Riley Smith
And that’s a whole different can of worms we can get into. But we’re not going to. But if you’re a manager, you’re going to manage your deer. Your going to manage the ratio? You’re going to manage the aged. And then on the, you know, the duck aspect, you know, you want to go in there and burn them up, but you also need rest areas.
00;09;33;13 – 00;09;40;12
Riley Smith
You need places that they can feed and then they can go to rest. And if you want to keep, keep good quality hunting.
00;09;40;16 – 00;09;41;00
Dr. Ryan Loy
That’s right.
00;09;41;00 – 00;10;01;29
Riley Smith
In your area and on your farm. And I’m talking about and depending on what you’re hunting, the acreage depends. But the whole point of this is not to talk about the hunting aspect. It’s talk about how much you’re putting into your dirt, how much you have, what is your cost at the end of it, when you get through seeding your food plots, fertilize.
00;10;01;29 – 00;10;22;08
Riley Smith
Liming them, spraying them. How many hours you got in the tractor now you’ve got a cost effect and you know exactly how much you’re putting into it. So now for future reference, if you’re wanting to budget next year and say, hey, well, times were tough this year, I ain’t going to be able to afford as much as I did last year.
00;10;22;10 – 00;10;47;15
Riley Smith
Well, now you have a actual record of what you did. That’s right. And if you’ve done this for a couple of years, several years now, you have a record of things you’ve done. Now you can go back and now you can actually build your budget based off of what your record says, what your bookkeeping says. And you can actually still have a successful food plot and successfully, harvest game on a budget.
00;10;47;20 – 00;10;58;08
Dr. Ryan Loy
Yep. So you’re speaking from the perspective of somebody who is interested in in being a stewardship of their own land and working with their own land with that return of big deer on their land.
00;10;58;08 – 00;10;59;12
Riley Smith
Or ducks.
00;10;59;13 – 00;11;16;03
Dr. Ryan Loy
Doesn’t mean doesn’t matter. Right. So just the wildlife and the stewardship of it on their own land and understand and quantifying what they’re putting into that dirt and what they’re going to get out of it. And what this tool really helps is really quantify that amount of what you’re putting into it. But I think more importantly to in something that’s also this tool can be helpful.
00;11;16;05 – 00;11;26;29
Dr. Ryan Loy
Let’s say the landowner, maybe he’s not a big hunter, but he’s a land steward and he sells hunts. Or maybe he has leases, right? This can help you build that base price of where you should be pricing your hunts at.
00;11;27;00 – 00;11;28;13
Riley Smith
And that’s that land capitalized.
00;11;28;16 – 00;11;29;00
Dr. Ryan Loy
That’s right.
00;11;29;05 – 00;11;51;15
Riley Smith
Because you talk about and that’s where I was going with the guys in, you know, land development. Yep. Now when you do something like this and you’re managing these properties, now you have something that you can actually base your it’s not just time, but you can base all of your costs that you’ve got involved tied up in that one property.
00;11;51;15 – 00;12;08;11
Riley Smith
Now you can take it and say, okay, this covers my cost. Now what’s my margin? That’s right. Now what’s my margin markup to be able to make a profit off this property? Because, I mean, obviously in the end goal, you want to take a piece of property and make it better than what it was.
00;12;08;11 – 00;12;10;20
Dr. Ryan Loy
That’s right, that’s right. That’s the goal anyway.
00;12;10;20 – 00;12;29;03
Riley Smith
Right. So you need to be able to accurately determine what that price should be, not just based on the, the, the, market value. Right. Because everybody’s going to say, well, the market value is this. Well, now you have actually a record of what went into that property over the last several years.
00;12;29;03 – 00;12;29;16
Dr. Ryan Loy
That’s right.
00;12;29;16 – 00;12;35;26
Riley Smith
Or a couple years or through the year, what you did and you show the time and everything. So that way it justifies that price.
00;12;35;26 – 00;12;53;22
Dr. Ryan Loy
That’s right. And from a budgeting perspective to this, this will help with the stewards of the land who plant the food plots because they can look at and say, well, maybe I don’t need that extra pound of nitrogen based on this cost, or maybe I don’t need that sweet clover in there. Didn’t do well last year and that cost me $0.90 a pound.
00;12;53;22 – 00;13;31;08
Riley Smith
And I’ll tell you some. Take it out. I’ll tell you something else too. If you had if you’re figuring up and this is kind of getting out in the weeds just a little bit, but if you’re figuring out what your forage rate is. So if you’re putting up a, forage cage in your food plot and seeing where your browse line is at, and I’m talking specifically deer for the moment, now you’re getting into, okay, what food plot blend or what kind of forage do I plant to satisfy that browse line that that amount that I can I guess more bang for your buck, right?
00;13;31;11 – 00;13;33;20
Riley Smith
More cost effective now. Yeah. Now you.
00;13;33;20 – 00;13;34;17
Dr. Ryan Loy
Have a now you have a.
00;13;34;17 – 00;13;38;28
Riley Smith
Way to do it. You have a tool that allows you that. That’s right. Now you can.
00;13;39;01 – 00;13;39;17
Dr. Ryan Loy
In this tool.
00;13;39;17 – 00;13;48;21
Riley Smith
See what is what’s a what cost effectiveness is. That’s right on your property. As far as that wildlife side goes.
00;13;48;21 – 00;14;02;12
Dr. Ryan Loy
That’s right. And this tool you know we’ve talked about a lot in this podcast already and it is a lot. And especially if you’re a hunter, you’ll you’ll understand a lot of it. But let’s just say you’re not a hunter. You know, this this tool is is helpful for just even a small scale, kind.
00;14;02;12 – 00;14;12;05
Riley Smith
Of a yeah, we’re talking about from anything from, eighth or 16th of an acre. Oh, yeah. All the way up to thousands of acres.
00;14;12;05 – 00;14;26;21
Dr. Ryan Loy
However many acres you want to plant, this is on a per acre basis. And we’ll we’ll link this tool both in the newsletter and on our podcast this week. And I encourage all the listeners and readers to go and kind of explore it and kind of mess with it. You’re going to look at it and it’ll be readily apparent.
00;14;26;21 – 00;14;51;08
Dr. Ryan Loy
You put in your seed blend, you’ll get your total seed cost, you put in your fertilizer, in lime cost. You’ll get that on an itemized basis. Then you get your pest control costs. And finally you get your mechanical operations cost, which includes some no no till disc mowing, spraying, broadcast fertilizer and, tilling. Again if you if you feel the need to do so, once you add up all those categories, you’ll get a total cost per acre that it’s going to give you.
00;14;51;08 – 00;14;57;11
Dr. Ryan Loy
And so really that’s that’s the benefits of this tool is just understanding on a whole what you’ve put into this.
00;14;57;11 – 00;15;17;15
Riley Smith
And last but not least, you can do the total mechanical operation. So that being all of the equipment that you use in your process of food plot engineering or duck plots or what have you, now you can figure up a dollar per acre per trip and how many trips you do. So you can actually calculate a cost on your equipment.
00;15;17;15 – 00;15;30;08
Dr. Ryan Loy
That’s right. And I think this will help, you know, this, this, this will help tremendously from several aspects. And like I mentioned earlier and alluded to earlier, I think this also has a lot of can can be helpful, extremely helpful with specialty growers in the small scale.
00;15;30;08 – 00;15;52;26
Riley Smith
Right, right. And so this is, this, this tool we wanted to just bring to light, when I first come to work here, Doctor Loy handed it over to me, wanted me to look at it because he knew I was heavily involved in the hunting aspect. And in a non-biased way. Because I am passionate about this.
00;15;52;26 – 00;15;56;11
Riley Smith
And when you’re passionate about something, you want it. You want to see it do good.
00;15;56;12 – 00;15;58;04
Dr. Ryan Loy
Right.
00;15;58;07 – 00;16;24;07
Riley Smith
But this from an economic standpoint, I have used this personally on my own farm and, or my family’s farm. And so, like, as I do a lot of the food plots and all that, and I can tell you that it really helps as far as trying to determine a budget for next year’s cost, especially when the fluctuation of corn and fertilizer prices or the way they are.
00;16;24;09 – 00;16;29;07
Riley Smith
It’s able to allow me to. Okay, well, I know how much I can afford.
00;16;29;09 – 00;16;29;27
Dr. Ryan Loy
Right.
00;16;29;29 – 00;16;45;07
Riley Smith
Now. How am I going to get the most out of it? That’s right. So now you have a tool that you can go in there and you can play with it. You can put it in this and that, and then you can finally determine, okay, this is how much I’m putting in per acre. This is what I can afford in this covers all bases.
00;16;45;08 – 00;16;50;12
Dr. Ryan Loy
Covers all bases. And if you want to add a margin in there and we can talk about that on a different episode and talk about some profit margin.
00;16;50;12 – 00;17;12;25
Riley Smith
But we figured it was, pretty good time in bow season opens this Saturday. So when y’all listen to this, this will actually we’re recording on Thursday, the Saturday or but Thursday before the Saturday in bow season. So when you hear this this will be on Monday morning. So hopefully everybody had a good opener. But without that, you got anything else you’d like to add?
00;17;12;25 – 00;17;19;16
Dr. Ryan Loy
I don’t think I do. Just good luck to everybody who, is hunting on Saturday. I hope they get after the, target, buck they’ve been going after.
00;17;19;16 – 00;17;42;27
Riley Smith
And if you don’t have any questions, y’all please read. Feel free to reach out. And, I’d be happy to answer any questions that you might have. If it if it’s about the tool or about food plot, budgeting or food plots in general. I like to talk about that, too. But if we, if I can’t answer it, then we can always get, doctor Eric or Dr. Courtney too fill in any.
00;17;43;00 – 00;17;43;16
Riley Smith
Oh, absolutely.
00;17;43;16 – 00;17;45;23
Dr. Ryan Loy
I mean, I talked to him this morning. He’d be more than happy to field any.
00;17;45;23 – 00;18;02;01
Riley Smith
Questions, but we wanted to bring this to light because we, we thought it was very important, and it was just a kind of a good way to end the week. We’re finally seeing, corn prices or not, as I say, corn prices. We’re we’re starting to see crop prices steadily rise so steadily.
00;18;02;02 – 00;18;04;18
Dr. Ryan Loy
We’ll we’ll see how that goes. We’ll see how it goes.
00;18;04;20 – 00;18;12;09
Riley Smith
Just everybody’s keeping their fingers crossed. We keep getting these tropical storms. So maybe the Mississippi River will come up and maybe so affect the basis a little better.
00;18;12;15 – 00;18;14;24
Dr. Ryan Loy
Maybe. So I think that’s what some people are holding out for.
00;18;14;24 – 00;18;42;15
Riley Smith
But anyway. Well thank you guys. Y’all stay tuned for my market report. Thanks. All right you guys back with your market report December 24. Corn. Current prices at $4.15 per bushel. Month agos price was at $3.97 per bushel. That’s up $0.28. Year agos price at $4.80 per bushel, down $0.65 November 24 rice is at 1503, per cwt.
00;18;42;17 – 00;19;08;17
Riley Smith
Month ago prices at $15.05 per cwt. That’s down $0.02 a year ago price was at $16.19 per cwt. That’s down $1.16 November 24 Soybeans is at $10.53 per bushel, month agos price is at $9.91 per bushel. That’s up $0.72. We’re finally, finally seeing an increase in those bean prices. A year agos prices at $13.03.
00;19;08;17 – 00;19;36;15
Riley Smith
That’s down $2.50. July 25 wheat $6.23 per bushel is current price a month ago was at $5.64 per bushel. That’s up $0.59. Year agos price was at $6.44 for bushel. And that’s down $0.21 December 24 cotton. Is at $0.73 per pound a month ago, price was at $0.70 per pound. That’s up $0.03. Year agos price was at $0.88 per pound.
00;19;36;15 – 00;20;11;06
Riley Smith
That’s down $0.15. Your weekly U.S average for peanuts is $536 per ton. Month ago price was at $544 per ton. That’s down $8 a year agos price was at $504 per ton. That’s up $32. That’s your commodity futures for this week, your fertilizer. we have done a little update. So we have changed, there is no longer UAN 32-0-0, we may include that that liquid.
00;20;11;08 – 00;20;32;12
Riley Smith
That liquid form, next week, but right now, we, just included ammonium nitrate. So, AN 34-0-0, and then we also changed the ag lime to pellet lime. That’s what a lot of co-ops tend to carry. And then we added our diesel price back, but this time we have off road diesel and highway diesel price.
00;20;32;14 – 00;20;41;18
Riley Smith
So now we have, have changed it up a little bit and got you a few more prices.
00;20;41;20 – 00;21;21;23
Riley Smith
Urea. So your fertilizer prices this week Urea is at $480 per ton. Ammonium nitrate 34-0-0 goes at $465 per ton. DAP is at $789 per ton. Potash is at $455 per ton. Your pellet lime at $225 per ton. Your diesel prices this week. You’re off road diesel prices at $2.44 per gallon. Your highway diesel is at $3.29 per gallon, and your river level at Mississippi, or your Mississippi River level at Memphis this week, current levels at -nine feet and a year ago was at -10.48ft.
00;21;21;23 – 00;21;47;29
Riley Smith
So we wanted to thank you guys again for joining in on another episode of Morning Coffee and AG Markets. We hope you enjoy the rest of your week. Hope you enjoyed your morning coffee this morning as you tuned in. Until next time, we’ll catch you on the flip flop. Bye bye now.
00;21;48;01 – 00;21;48;10
Riley Smith
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The University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture’s mission is to strengthen agriculture, communities, and families by connecting trusted research to the adoption of best practices. Through the Agricultural Experiment Station and the Cooperative Extension Service, the Division of Agriculture conducts research and extension work within the nation’s historic land grant education system.
The Division of Agriculture is one of 20 entities within the University of Arkansas System. It has offices in all 75 counties in Arkansas and faculty on five system campuses.
The University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture offers all its Extension and Research programs and services without regard to race, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, religion, age, disability, marital or veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected status, and is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.
About the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences
Bumpers College provides life-changing opportunities to position and prepares graduates who will be leaders in the businesses associated with foods, family, the environment, agriculture, sustainability and human quality of life; and who will be first-choice candidates of employers looking for leaders, innovators, policymakers and entrepreneurs. The college is named for Dale Bumpers, former Arkansas governor and longtime U.S. senator who made the state prominent in national and international agriculture. For more information about Bumpers College, visit our website, and follow us on Twitter at @BumpersCollege and Instagram at BumpersCollege.
Media Contact
Mary Hightower
U of A System Division of Agriculture
(501) 671-2006 | mhightower@uada.edu