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SCIENCE UPDATES
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 Seeking best grains if climate changes—UI wheat breeder Jianli Chen tests 3,000 wheat and barley lines for potential climate change uses.
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Minimum size increase for spuds? —Increasing minimum grocery spud size by 1 oz could increase potato revenues in Idaho by $130 million.
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 E. coli vaccine advances—What’s bad for beef eaters may be good for beef cattle.
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 Students cook Idaho grown food—Low-income students learn to cook healthy locally grown foods.
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 Tackling Noxious Weeds—Tim Prather’s weed models help Lemhi County battle noxious weeds that degrade public lands.
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 Find Idaho 2010 census data—UI maintained website now includes 2010 census data at Idaho and county levels.
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COVER STORIES - Idaho 4-H Celebrates 100 years
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 Intro—UI Extension’s 4-H Youth Development impacts Idaho youth for 100 years. Join in 2012 celebrations.
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 Volunteers—At the heart of Idaho 4-H are thousands of caring, dedicated adult volunteers. Become one!
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 Friends of 4-H—Youngstrom brother and sister donate $100,000 each to 4-H faculty endowment. All contributions strengthen youth programs.
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 It’s Fair Time—4-Hers love the fair where their year-long efforts hopefully bring home ribbons.
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 Future of 4-H—Focus on science, healthy living, citizenship, and community volunteering.
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OTHER FEATURES
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 Idaho’s New Water Stewards—New volunteer water stewards monitor Idaho streams, collect data, and bring science to Idaho students.
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 Climate Change Grant—The University of Idaho earned a $20 million climate change grant in part because of earlier tri-state successes in curbing soil erosion.
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 Amazing Innovators—Innovations by UI CALS researchers produce results that nourish Idaho’s economy.
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 Garth Sasser & animal pregnancy—Former UI professor builds an animal pregnancy enterprise.
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 Steve Love & native plants—He looked high and low in Idaho wildlands for suitable native plants, soon to be available in Idaho nurseries.
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Kerry Huber & new role for spuds—Patent-pending discovery has food companies lining up for potato starch that could lower fat levels in foods like French fries.
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 Other Innovators—Also: Innovators of wheat and spud varieties, water treatment, even bacteria to strengthen earthquake-prone soils.
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 Juliet vs. Stripe Rust (wheat)—Southeastern Idaho wheat growers reaped benefits by heeding Juliet’s stripe rust warnings.
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 Boise Refugee Gardens—3 UI students helped Boise-area refugees with their garden enterprises
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 Diary of UI Extension Horticulturist—What does a UI Extension horticulturalist do? Come ride along with Ariel.
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 2011 in Pictures—Life’s not all work at UI CALS. Fun’s important too.
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 FCS & Sandra Evenson—Hula hooping head of UI’s Family & Consumer Sciences has lots to brag about.
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 Derby Dames get new Duds—6 weeks to design new outfits for roller derby team.
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 Bookshelf – Voles & Pocket Gophers—New publication offers 16 pages of advice on identifying and curing vole/gopher problems.
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Our cover girl, Isabelle, 6, from northern Idaho, when asked what she likesabout being a 4-H Cloverbud, said, “I can’t wait to be a BIG 4-Her!! I want to do the projects and have my own lamb!” Already, for 4-H, she planted flowers, tie-dyed t-shirts, made a fruit smoothie, learned about animal health, sewed a pillowcase, and, best of all, “went to Latah County Fair!” The ribbon is for her Cloverbud memory book. |