The University of New Hampshire has been ranked as hosting one of the top 20 sets of university farms in America. UNH has four horticulture, agronomy, and dairy farms, as well as greenhouses, which are centered on teaching, research and outreach. All are facilities of the NH Agricultural Experiment Station at the UNH College of Life Sciences and Agriculture.

For the second year, the Macfarlane Research Greenhouses at the University of New Hampshire have received the top grade for sustainability by an independent international sustainability certification group. The facility, which is part of the NH Agricultural Experiment Station at the UNH College of Life Sciences and Agriculture, is the only research greenhouse operation in the world with this sustainability certification.

How does life begin and evolve? It is, possibly, the most complex and mystifying scientific puzzle that researchers continue to explore. Scientists at the University of New Hampshire will delve deeper into that puzzle as part of a team of researchers who have received a five-year $8.9 million award from NASA to form an Astrobiology Institute.

NH Agricultural Experiment Station (NHAES) scientists at the University of New Hampshire are among those who have been awarded a $10 million, five-year federal grant to develop and apply modern DNA-based tools to deliver new cultivated varieties of  rosaceous crops such as apples, peaches, strawberries, and cherries with superior product quality and disease resistance.

The University of New Hampshire has named its high-tech composting/energy capture facility at the Organic Dairy Research Farm in honor of the sustainable agriculture pioneer who advanced the technology -- the Joshua Nelson Energy Recovery Compost Facility. The facility is the only one of its kind at a land-grant university.

Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular, Cellular and Biomedical Sciences
Researcher with the NH Agricultural Experiment Station

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For hundreds of years, foresters have taken to the woods with tape measures in hand to assess tree inventories. Now this labor-intensive process is getting some high-tech help from University of New Hampshire researchers who are looking at how laser imaging can be used to assist today’s foresters and landowners.

Researchers with the NH Agricultural Experiment Station at the University of New Hampshire have invented a low-cost method to monitor lakes for dangerous airborne toxins that have been linked to liver problems.

If Tom Lee was a superhero, glossy buckthorn would be his personal arch nemesis. For decades, the researcher with the NH Agricultural Experiment Station at the University of New Hampshire has been fighting against this invasive shrub that takes aim at some of the state’s most economically important forests such as the eastern white pine.

Roundworms that feed on plants cause approximately $100 billion in annual global crop damage. But a new way of disrupting the motility and reproduction of these plant parasitic nematodes discovered by a University of New Hampshire scientist may one day provide farmers with a new way to safely manage these agricultural pests.