UNH Today

UNH Research: Great Recession Changed U.S. Migration Patterns

The economic shocks of the housing-market crisis and Great Recession were associated with striking changes in net migration patterns in both rural and urban America, with rural farming communities experiencing different migration trends than other rural areas, according to new research funded by the NH Agricultural Experiment Station.

Ken Johnson, a demographer and professor of sociology at the University of New Hampshire, and colleagues from the University of Wisconsin, found:

UNH Scientist, Senegalese Researcher Tackle Land Salinization

Salt left behind from ocean spray is so concentrated on land in parts of Africa that one can see salt crystals in the soil sparkling in the sun. For farmers in these areas, the increased salinization of prime agricultural land is having a detrimental impact.

This spring, Dr. Louis S. Tisa, a researcher with the NH Agricultural Experiment Station and professor of molecular, cellular, and biomedical sciences in the UNH College of Life Sciences and Agriculture, welcomed an international scholar who is working to find solutions to the issue of land salinization in Africa.

At the UNH Fairchild Dairy, Cows in Labor Send Text Alerts

It’s the middle of the night, and University of New Hampshire doctoral student Kayla Aragona has just received a text alert at home on her cell phone from a cow in labor at the Fairchild Dairy Teaching and Research Center. A sensor – Moocall – attached to the cow’s tail has detected that the cow is highly active, likely due to an increase in contractions.

UNH Launches Silvopasture Project at Organic Dairy Research Farm

Seeing cows graze in a forest may be an uncommon site in New England but at the Organic Dairy Research Farm at the University of New Hampshire, heifers soon will be dining among the trees. Researchers with the NH Agricultural Experiment Station have launched a silvopasture project at the farm to investigate this relatively new agroforestry practice in the region.