University of KentuckyCollege of Agriculture

Integrated for Success

Many programs that educate beef producers on the newest methods have emerged from the UK Beef Integrated Resource Management team since it was created 18 years ago. [more]

Friends, Not Foes

The goal of Forestry's John Cox is to tag and track 50 to 100 timber rattlesnakes in what he hopes will be the largest study that has been done in central Appalachia.[more]

Clothes Make the Reenactor

Each year, thousands of Civil War reenactors don wool uniforms, caged crinolines, and other period attire to recreate historic battles as accurately as possible. UK Merchandising, Apparel and Textile's Kim Miller-Spillman knows that to reenactors the period dress is much more than blue or gray. [more]

An Early Bond

Traditionally, it's college students who join MANRRS, Minorities in Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Related Sciences, but now 4-H'ers have a chance to become involved in a Jr. MANRRS program while still in high school. [more]

Soil Savers

Last summer's drought was the worst since the Great Dust Bowl of the 1930s. But people like Union County ag agent Rankin Powell (center), Randy Hagan (left) and son Jonathan have helped to prevent erosion's dire consequences by using a variety of techniques to conserve topsoil. [more]

The Tree Matures

For more than 40 years, The Lemon Tree has provided students with one of the most interactive learning experiences on campus. [more]

Our Land-Grant Heritage

The University of Kentucky College of Agriculture was founded as, and remains a land-grant institution, offering access to knowledge and learning for citizens and students throughout the Commonwealth.

UKAg Academics

 

Educating students was the earliest mission of the College and remains the most important way that we enhance the future of the Commonwealth. Instruction is fully integrated with our other missions – research and extension. The College expects its graduates to become leaders in their professions and their communities.

UKAg Extension

 

Agricultural, environmental, economic, and societal issues create an unprecedented demand for knowledge and research-based educational programs applicable to the needs of all Kentuckians. Economic development, leadership development, family, nutrition and health issues, opportunities for youth, and a rapidly changing agricultural landscape in Kentucky require a vital, progressive and responsive College of Agriculture and Cooperative Extension system.

UKAg Research

 

The College’s land-grant mission encourages truly creative research endeavors that result in the discovery of new knowledge. Further, we aspire to capitalize on the individual and collective achievement of our faculty by applying discoveries to the improvement of agriculture, industry, families, communities, and the natural environment.