Category: Public Service and Agriculture

Clemson PSA safeguards the health and safety of livestock, poultry and companion animals and protects the food supply and public health of South Carolinians. The agency ensures the safe, effective use of fertilizers and pesticides and the quality of seeds and plants grown in the state. Outreach and research facilities support and advance South Carolina’s agribusiness and forestry industries while also developing solutions to sustainably manage the state’s natural resources.

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Members of inaugural Extension Emerging Leadership Initiative class gather at Sandhill Research and Education Center

Clemson Extension leadership program welcomes inaugural class

Bert McCarty

Clemson’s McCarty wins Carolinas Golf Course Superintendents Association’s Highest Honor

Tristan Allerton working on his research.

Clemson doctoral student receives prestigious grant

Maps created by Jim Faust and Joanne Logan.

New national light maps help greenhouse growers manage plant growth

Grain sorghum grows in a field during commercial trials.

Clemson-based project aims to transform Southeastern feed grain industry

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue tours Clemson, cites university’s role in future of ag

Join Clemson Extension and others for the 2019 AgOutlook Conference, Nov. 16, in Columbia.

Clemson announces 3rd Annual AgOutlook Conference

Annual Vinca

Clemson researchers help develop new line of disease-resistant vinca

Clemson celebrates its first Day of the Dead ceremony.

Scenes from Clemson’s Day of the Dead/Dia de los Muertos celebration

Clemson professors are leading a study that involves learning how to properly clean vomit from floors to reduce spread of germs.

Clemson experts study proper vomit cleanup in long-term care facilities

Growing cover crops can help improve soil health.

Clemson experts: Cover cropping can improve soil health, increase bottom line

The Cempazuchitl, Mexican marigold, is the main flower to use in Day of the Dead celebrations.

S.C. Botanical Garden presents Day of the Dead: A vibrant celebration of life

Yon family poses

Clemson alumnus Kevin Yon named Southeast’s top farmer

People at pond

Clemson to hold Lowcountry stormwater pond management conference

Charles Nilon University of Missouri

Urban wildlife ecology expert to speak at Clemson

An early version of the Enodia system is tested at the Watt Family Innovation Center.

Clemson virtual reality, environmental research boosted by NSF grants

Pollinator Garden comes to S.C. Botanical Garden Children’s Garden

Pollinator Garden comes to S.C. Botanical Garden Children’s Garden

Allen speaks

S.C. lawmakers call for further understanding of state’s water resources

New Clemson Extension initiative seeks to sustain leadership for future generations

Sawyer speaks

Clemson leading effort to take stock of state’s water resources

horse and pasture

Pasture workshop in Tryon teaches ways to maximize grass for horses

Clemson students in the Agricultural Mechanization and Business program planted, cultivated and harvested corn to sell for the Wounded Warrior Project.

Clemson students plant and sell deer corn to benefit Wounded Warriors

Pic of Michelle Parisi

Meet a Tiger: Michelle Parisi

Now is the time to prepare landscapes for hurricane season.

Water Resources Conference brings together scientists, policymakers, amid hurricane aftermath

Michelle Parisi and Sarah Griffin

CDC grant supports Clemson program to address obesity epidemic

Food is a science, and so is how it’s grown

Food is a science, and so is how it’s grown

Joe Mari Maja, a researcher at Clemson's Edisto Research and Education Center, believes Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) can be used to make cotton harvest more efficient.

Clemson researchers study using UGVs for cotton harvesting

Field peas

Clemson researchers optimizing pulse and cereal crops for organic production in S.C.

Grass

Extension offering workshop for landscape pros on smart fertilization, soil improvement

Predatory mite

Clemson researcher studying ways to pit good mites vs. bad to reduce crop damage

South Carolina suspends some veterinary requirements for animals evacuated due to hurricane

South Carolina suspends some veterinary requirements for animals evacuated due to hurricane

Clemson entomologist Al Wheeler discovered this bug, Tenthecoris tillandsiae, at the Clemson Coastal REC in Charleston. This is the first time this bug has been reported being seen in the United States.

New plant bug discovered in Charleston may have hitchhiked on Spanish moss

Harrison Fried and Sruthi Narayanan check soybeans in their research field.

Clemson researchers study ‘hidden half’ of soybean plants to improve drought tolerance

A recent meeting of researchers from across the United States who are looking in to ways to control Armillaria root rot included a visit to Titan Farms in Ridge Spring.

Armillaria root rot project image gallery

Armillaria root rot

Researchers meet to plan attack on Armillaria root rot

The apple harvest season is underway in South Carolina and Clemson Extension agents are busy helping growers learn how to maximize knowledge and technology to reinvigorate the South Carolina apple industry.

It’s apple-picking time in South Carolina