Roundworms that feed on plants cause approximately $100 billion in annual global crop damage. Now researchers at the University of New Hampshire have made a patent-pending discovery that certain enzymes in roundworms, called nematodes, behave differently than the same enzymes in humans, with amino acids potentially playing a key role.

Happy National Ag Day 2019. At the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station, we've been improving the lives of Granite Staters by advancing agricultural research since 1887. 

Nearly 35 percent of rural counties in the United States are experiencing protracted and significant population loss, according to new research from the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station at the University of New Hampshire. Those counties now are home to 6.2 million residents, a third fewer than lived there in 1950.

In all, the researchers found that 746 counties representing 24 percent of all U.S. counties are depopulating and 91 percent of them are rural. In contrast, just nine percent of urban counties are depopulating.

University of New Hampshire brewing science students have taken a trip back in history to brew a new butternut squash pale ale using squash grown as part of the NH Agricultural Experiment Station’s landmark cucurbit breeding program. The brew is reminiscent of the pumpkin ales first developed during colonial times and will be served at the student-led Paul College Hospitality Management Spring Dining Series.

UNH scientists received an NSF grant to plan the logistics of ice core research in a remote section of Antarctica.

Engineering technology professor Christopher LeBlanc has been elected as chair of programming for the Engineering Technology Division of the American Society for Engineering Education.

The Sunflower State Journal recently reported on the falling Kansas birthrate, which in 2019 hit the lowest level since record-keeping began in 1912, and interviewed Carsey School Senior Demographer Ken Johnson about immigration trends that have impacted the Kansas birthrate.

A University of New Hampshire graduate student studying invasive plants in riparian forests has been named the Graduate Student of the Year by the Granite State Division of the Society of American Foresters.

“I was astonished to receive this award. It was such an honor to be recognized in the presence of so many people and agencies that I have a lot of respect for and are doing great work”, said Chad Hammer, who conducted his research with support from the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station.

A pathologist with the New Hampshire Veterinary Diagnostic Lab has identified the first case of Skunk Adenovirus-1 in the United States. The rare respiratory disease was found in tissues of a hedgehog submitted for diagnosis and represents only the third confirmed detection of the virus in the world.