Category: College of Agriculture, Forestry and Life Sciences

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The College of Agriculture, Forestry and Life Sciences is at the core of Clemson University’s land-grant heritage and is the beating heart of founder Thomas Green Clemson’s vision of a high seminary of learning that would reach beyond the boundaries of the academy to benefit South Carolina, its people, land, wildlife, natural resources and economy. CAFLS brings together the land-grant mission of teaching, research and Extension through world-class educational, inquiry and outreach opportunities, and partnerships with private industry and state and federal agencies.

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Participants in the first-ever Clemson Extension Master Food Preserver class learn how to teach people in their communities about food preservation.

South Carolina residents become Master Food Preservers

Grapes wrapped in Biopack film made from pearl milliet starch and kudzu.

Clemson researcher uses common millet/kudzu to create biodegradable food packaging

Individual sorghum panicles were harvested in August 2022 for compositional and metabolomic analyses to determine changes in nutrients and metabolites that affect grain quality.

Clemson receives FFAR grant to promote sorghum health benefits

Clemson experts report peanut production up in South Carolina.

Clemson announces S.C. Peanut Growers Meeting

Cotton

Clemson announces 2023 state cotton meeting

Peanuts

Clemson unites with FFAR to tackle peanut allergies

SC New and Beginning Farmer Program accepting applications for 2023

J. Drew Lanham, Ornithologist, Naturalist, and Writer, 2022 MacArthur Fellow, Clemson, SC

Clemson wildlife professor recognized among most influential Black Americans

Black-grass

Study finds link between evolution and herbicide resistance

Attendees to the 2022 Clemson Corn and Soybean Growers' Meeting learned how Agri Spray Drones are being used in agriculture research.

Clemson Extension specialists share tips for growing corn and soybeans

Clemson University researchers have received a USDA grant to help give organic sweet potato farmers new weapons to use against nematodes and weeds.

Clemson researchers work to improve organic sweet potato production in S.C.

Clemson, SC State unite for historic Extension summit in support of land-grant mission

Five men standing in a row holding plaques with balloons above them.

Clemson’s College of Agriculture, Forestry and Life Sciences names 2022 alumni award winners

USDA-NIFA's AgrAbility project helps disabled farmers get access to equipment that can help them in their farming operations.

Clemson and S.C. State collaborate to bring AgrAbility to South Carolina

An ermine stands in the forest.

Weasels, not pandas, should be the poster animal for biodiversity loss

Check firewood for insects before bringing in a house.

Don’t bring uninvited holiday guests inside with Christmas trees or firewood

Elizabeth Rhue, David McLain, Josh Mellinger

Sonoco FRESH Announces New Industry Advisory Board Leadership

Reed Edwards, co-owner of FoxPipe Farm in Laurens, S.C., and field day host, talks about growing lespedeza.

South Carolina hay grower wins in Southeastern Hay Contest

Clemson webinar offers community answers for handling problem wildlife

Elizabeth McCabe, Hannah Culler, Grace Covan, Victoria Mueller, Taylor Hancock, Sydney-Grace Lewis, Chloé Greaux, Chloe Link, Lydia Owens.

Clemson Dairy Science Club students win at 2022 South Carolina State Fair

Sonoco Institute course participants

Sonoco Institute Releases Industry Training Schedule through June 2023

S.C. Women in Ag Conference provides connections, shares knowledge

Thanksgiving Food Safety

Don’t invite salmonella or other bacteria to holiday meals

Clemson horticulture student finds internship inspiration in Monet’s garden

Clemson Extension offering farmers insight in uncertain times at Ag Outlook Conference

Comparing research in industry and academia focus of panel discussion with Clemson alumni and faculty

A group of eight chickens in a coop.

Flock of domesticated birds in Beaufort County tests positive for HPAI

A group of three female high school scholars from Germany studying in the Clemson research Sachin Rustgi's lab.

Clemson and S.C. Governor’s School collaborate to help save the future of agriculture

Patrick Wechter, Director of Clemson University's Coastal Research and Education Center, standing in front of cabinets filled with supplies.

Wechter takes charge of Clemson research facility in ‘proving ground for plant disease’

A team of Clemson researchers, led by Rongzhong Ye and Sruthi Narayanan discuss the field design for growing cover crops to improve soil-plant interactions, reduce resource inputs, improve cropping system productivity and more.

Clemson University researchers look to the past for answers to the present

The S.C. Cottage Food Law was amended in May 2022 and Clemson Extension has a new document to help residents navigate these revisions.

Clemson Extension document helps residents navigate S.C. Cottage Food Law revisions

J. Drew Lanham, Ornithologist, Naturalist, and Writer, 2022 MacArthur Fellow, Clemson, SC

Clemson’s Lanham garners ‘genius grant’ from MacArthur Foundation to ‘fund dreams’

Clemson Agronomic and Vegetable Field Day highlights latest research/technology

S.C. 4-H joins in weeklong celebration of the power of youth

A farmer wearing an orange shirt and Clemson ball cap kneels in a field to pick up something small from the ground.

USDA investing $70M in Clemson, South Carolina State Climate-Smart Commodities project

Susan Hollifield runs the Hollifield Orchard stand in Long Creek, South Carolina, where she sells apples grown in her family's orchard.

Clemson Extension announces Women in Ag Conference