2025 Awards and Fellows
ASA, CSSA, and SSSA congratulate the 2025 award recipients and Fellows. These individuals were recognized at ceremonies held during CANVAS 2025 in Salt Lake City in November. See this year's recipients and their photos!
2026 ASA Southern Branch annual meeting
Learn about key deadlines for the Jan. 31-Feb. 3 event in Louisville
The ASA Southern Branch is holding its 2026 annual meeting in conjunction with the Southern Association of Agricultural Scientists meeting. It's a venue for collaboration and networking among agronomy professionals and students in the Southern Region. Key deadlines are coming up, include the December 12 deadline for abstract submissions, awards, and elections.
Featured articles
ASA, CSSA, SSSA urge USDA to support conservation, forestry programs
ASA, CSSA, and SSSA joined 29 other stakeholder groups on a letter to USDA led by the Food and Agriculture Climate Alliance (FACA). The letter to Secretary Rollins requested USDA move forward with funding awards and announcements for key NRCS and Forest Service programs.
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Down to Earth
Our Down to Earth section publishes food, farming, and environmental concepts and research in language that is easy to understand by all, including those without formal scientific training. Visit us each week as we continue to add more sections and content.
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Federally funded research: A good investment
Stakeholders share stories about how farmers benefit
Federal funding from institutions like the USDA enables countless services to researchers and stakeholders alike. In the beginning of 2025, however, federal departments faced widespread efforts to reorganize staff, limit spending, and freeze or even terminate grants that had been distributed to public researchers. As Congress debates funding for American ag, members and associates of the Societies raise stories highlighting the importance of federal science funding, not just for research, but for farmers themselves.
Tar spot’s hidden cost to silage corn yield and nutritive value
Silage corn is a high-energy forage, critical to livestock diets. Tar spot disease is emerging as a significant contributor to losses in yield and nutritive value in the Great Lakes Region over the past decade. Researchers at Michigan State University set out to quantify the impact of tar spot on silage corn and explore management strategies.
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