One of the Kerr Center for Sustainable Agriculture’s most enduringly popular publications, Sweet Sorghum: Production and Processing, is now available in an updated second edition. George Kuepper, the author of the original 1992 report, also penned the new edition. Sorghum is a traditional crop throughout the southern United States and the lower Midwest. The name...

Jim Horne, Special Projects Director at the Kerr Center for Sustainable Agriculture, retired Dec. 31 after a forty-five year career with the organization. He was honored with a plaque at the trustees’ meeting in early December. Horne first joined the Kerr Center, then known as the Agricultural Division of the Kerr Foundation, in 1972. As…

Many an Oklahoma gardener has come to grief trying to get a vegetable garden going in bermudagrass, even with an arsenal of herbicides to beat the stuff back. No wonder that few did more than roll their eyes when the Kerr Center took on the same task – using only organic methods. Within a few…

The Kerr Center’s “Oklahoma Pollinator Preservation and Education Program” was honored on Sept. 17 with the 2015 Henry Bellmon Award for Environmental Stewardship.