INSPIRED: Research Reports from the NH Agricultural Experiment Station

INSPIRED: Research Reports from the NH Agricultural Experiment Station

An important mission of the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station is to ensure that our research reaches the individuals and communities for which the findings can be most impactful. INSPIRED is a publication of the NHAES that has the goal of sharing the latest knowledge with communities that will most benefit from that knowledge. Each issue contains short research briefs that describe key insights and data from NHAES research projects conducted over the past several years. You can view each issue online below.

The image of the NH Agricultural Experiment Station's inspired aquaculture issue shows a woman holding up a net of oysters.
This issue highlights research on New Hampshire's aquaculture challenges. Key topics include climate-driven shifts in lumpfish distribution, mating blue crabs in Great Bay, and oyster biosensors for environmental monitoring. Additional studies focus on using lumpfish to control sea lice in trout farms, microplastic pollution in estuaries, and oysters' role in nutrient reduction.

Fall 2024 Edition

The Inspired water quality and management report with black outline
The spring 2024 report explores solutions and new technologies for water quality and water management in New Hampshire. Inside is research on the effects of urbanization on water chemistry, the roles that rivers play in capturing carbon and methane from entering the atmosphere, and how changing weather patterns may be impacting those climatic contributions – among other freshwater science research.

SPRING 2024 Edition

A woman at a outdoor market organizes flowers for sale
The summer/fall 2023 report examines our local food markets and food providers, including studying barriers to farm viability. This issue also covers nutritional and food access issues among Granite Staters, including for New Hampshire’s Bhutanese refugee population and its emerging adults. Finally, it covers topics of population change and diversification.

Summer/Fall 2023 Edition

Inspired winter 2023 research report

Winter 2023 Edition

A photo of INSPIRED: Horticulture Summer 2022 cover showing a COLSA student holding up produce grown at Woodman Horticultural Research Farm
The summer 2022 report covers agriculture-related research – including best practices for growing table grapes, eggplants and Brussels sprouts in New England; advancements in wild and ornamental strawberry genomics; and an examination of using seafood byproducts as bio-pesticides.

Summer 2022 Edition

A cover image of INSPIRED: Dairy Winter 2021 that shows the Fairchild Dairy Teaching and Research Center
The winter 2021 report covers a diverse set of issues facing the dairy sector in the Granite State and northern New England, including advantages of feeding red clover or alfalfa grass, effects of adding the supplement Selenium to cow diets, and the performance-related impacts of feeding sodium butyrate to heifers.

Winter 2021 Edition