Nearly 170 growers and producers from across the state filled the University Farm Pavilion to learn about small-scale agriculture and ways to meet their farm’s needs.

The College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences has put three new “dogs” on the hunt for crop-destroying pests, plant diseases and invasive weeds, all to help growers manage their fields, their time and their budgets.

Christopher Hicks ’22 spent his childhood learning about agriculture from his grandfather in Jones County. After earning his master’s degree from N.C. A&T, he went back “down east” to teach the subject. Now, he is nominated for one of North Carolina’s top honors in career and technical education.

As director of the Child Development Lab in N.C. A&T’s Department of Family and Consumer Sciences, Jawan Burwell, Ed.D., has experienced many, many story times for kids.

The way to a boy’s heart is through the stomach — at least in the case of 8-year-old Pablo Zuniga.

That’s the pitstop at the Speedway to Healthy exhibit that Pablo, a student at Southwest Elementary School in Guilford County, enjoyed the most. “We were sorting foods (according to what’s healthy),” he said. “It was fun.”

The University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff’s School of Agriculture, Fisheries and Human Sciences (SAFHS) hosted the 2026 1890 Center of Excellence Student Success and Workforce Development Symposium from May 17-20.

“Diligent” is the way Uchenna Anele, Ph.D., professor and interim chair of the Department of Animal Sciences, describes his mentee, graduate research assistant Chika Anotaenwere. So, he wasn’t surprised that she completed the 16-week Agribusiness Entrepreneurial Academy at the Agriculture Business Innovation Center (ABIC) — and won a student award in the process.

When 2010 animal sciences graduate La-Donia Alford-Jefferies earned her professor’s cowl at graduation May 8, she became the first Ph.D. graduate in the College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences’ agricultural and extension education concentration. But she has a long Aggie legacy.