RT @UTIAg: Mark your calendars for the 2025 Steak and Potatoes Field Day, Aug. 21 in Crossville! Join UTIA experts for insights on cattle,….

RT @UTIAg: Congratulations to UTIA’s Robert Burns on receiving the prestigious McCormick Case Gold Medal from @ASABEorg for his groundbreak….

RT @UTIAg: UTIA researchers are helping farmers in East TN recover from Hurricane Helene flooding with a @USDA_NIFA grant to study and mana….

RT @UTIAg: UTIA AgResearch and Enterprise Sensor Systems LLC have received an AI TechX Seed Fund grant to develop AI-powered, contactless t….

RT @UTIAg: Join us June 26 in Springfield, TN, for the 2025 Tobacco, Beef and More Field Day! Choose from four expert-led tours covering to….

Congrats to Dean Hongwei Xin for earning the Excellence in Leadership Award, to Assoc. Dean Tim Rials for receiving the Susan Duncan Meritorious Award, to Yang Zhao, assoc. professor, for receiving the Agricultural Research Innovation Award of Excellence from agInnovation South!

RT @UTIAg: UTIA's annual Weed Tour is set for June 18 in Jackson, TN! Row crop producers are invited to explore 40+ field trials in cotton,….

Congratulations to Qixin Zhong, Yang Zhao, Jerome Grant, Karen DeLong, and Nour Abdoulmoumine for receiving the UT Academic Honors Awards for research and teaching. UTIA Rocks!

Congratulations to Drs. Hayes, Schaeffer, and Jurat-Fuentes for their excellent presentations on microplastics and pesticides at the AAAS Annual Meeting in Boston. We appreciate their cutting edge, impactful research and representing UTIA so well.

RT @KC4UTIA: UTIA Expert Appointed to USDA Advisory Committee @UTIAg @UTAgResearch @utextension @UT_Herbert.

RT @KC4UTIA: Three great days of congressional visits and @APLU_News meetings in DC. Everyday is Ag Day at the University of Tennessee 🍊 #a….

TSU & UTIA held the 4th Joint Research Summit to further collaborations in research & innovation to address grand challenges facing our state and beyond. Fifteen faculty in ag, natural resources & environmental sciences from both institutions provided research program overviews.

Congratulations to Vince Pantalone, Institute Professor in the Department of Plant Sciences, who received a $50,000 Chancellor’s Innovation Fund Award to support his research on the commercialization of robust soybean varieties.

The drive for growing strategic global partnerships for UTIA led to the visits of two renowned Brazilian ag universities, one national research unit (Embrapa in Sao Carlos) and two state funding agencies (FAPEMIG of Minas Gerais State and FAPESP of Sao Paulo State).

Check out our new internship opportunity in East Tennessee! #internships #farming #research

The UT Arboretum Society, UT Forest Resources AgResearch and Education Center and UT AgResearch Leadership, celebrated the Elmore Holly Collection with a dedication event and Christmas lighting on December 7.

Growing UT AgResearch, Together! We are dedicated to growing the economic prosperity of Tennessee and training our future leaders and workforce. When you support the work of UT AgResearch today, you are investing directly in the future of Tennessee.

UT Northeast TN AgResearch & Education Center (Greeneville) is a collection & distribution site for necessities of hurricane Helene-impacted communities and is a site for disposing of storm-damage debris. Heartfelt gratitude to the outpouring of support by the caring Volunteers!

The AgResearch Retreat was a big hit with lots of collaboration and team-building activities. We learned about CliftonStrengths from Zoe Nunley with UTK's Learning & Organizational Development, visited with Tom Boyd, and were inspired by encouraging words from Keith Carver.

Congratulations to Thien Nguyen (PhD) and Tanner Thornton (MS), the recipients of the 2024 Robert & Karen Miller Outstanding Graduate Student Awards! We appreciate our graduate research assistants and their contributions to the UTIA mission.