University of Kentucky

Research shows meat alternatives growing, but not impacting beef demand

AGDAILY Reporters · March 1, 2022

University of Kentucky economists found that consumers are trying plant-based meat alternatives but not at a rate that would replace demand for beef.

Farmers can apply a fungicide once to protect against foliar diseases

AGDAILY Reporters · October 6, 2020

Researchers in Kentucky found that treatments at the silking stage provided the best foliar disease control for corn farmers.

Kentucky wheat blast likely arose from a ‘host jump’

AGDAILY Reporters · July 10, 2017

Historically, wheat in Kentucky and across North America has not been susceptible to a recently emerged fungus referred to as wheat blast. However, in 2011, UK researchers discovered a single diseased wheat head in a research plot at the University of Kentucky Research and Education Center in Princeton, Kentucky. Then, in 2016, a wheat blast […]