Kentucky State University president served as keynote speaker for Small Farmers Conference

Kentucky State University president served as keynote speaker for Small Farmers Conference

November 17, 2017

Kentucky State University President M. Christopher Brown II delivered a keynote address to hundreds of farmers from 10 states and 41 Kentucky counties Nov. 15 during the 2017 Kentucky Small, Limited Resource, Minority Farmers Conference held at Kentucky State. President Brown said his father was a sharecropper in South Carolina, but he never fully understood the role of small farmers until his presidency at Alcorn State University....

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Kentucky State University mobile chicken processing unit one of few in the country

Kentucky State University mobile chicken processing unit one of few in the country

November 9, 2017

For over 15 years, Kentucky State University (KSU) has been helping small-scale poultry farmers get their products into the hands of consumers. KSU’s poultry mobile processing unit (MPU) began as an idea in 1997 by farmers and Heifer International and came to fruition in 2001, according to Steven Skelton, a cooperative extension coordinator at the University. The MPU was immobilized for a short period of time before KSU purchased i...

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Eight Kentucky State University students earned awards at the 103rd Kentucky Academy of Science meeting

Eight Kentucky State University students earned awards at the 103rd Kentucky Academy of Science meeting

November 9, 2017

Kentucky State University students, faculty and staff earned top awards and gave compelling presentations at the 103rd Kentucky Academy of Science (KAS) meeting at Murray State University recently. Eight students earned honors at the conference, which was attended by nearly 1,000 students, faculty and research staff from around the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Srijana Thapa Magar, Thomas Mason and Sathya Govindasamy earned first, seco...

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Kentucky State University director to receive USDA Excellence in Extension award

Kentucky State University director to receive USDA Excellence in Extension award

November 9, 2017

Kentucky State University’s Louie Rivers Jr. will receive the 2017 Excellence in Extension Award – a prestigious national recognition for extension workers with visionary leadership, a track record of excellence in programming and positive impacts on their community. The award, which has been presented since 1991, is given by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) and the Assoc...

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