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Fast facts: Bourland serves division as cotton breeder, researcher Cochran led Division of Agriculture for a decade Looney moved cattle industry forward with genetics research LITTLE ROCK …
Six new members will be inducted into Class 36 of the Arkansas Agriculture Hall of Fame.
Twenty faculty members, scientists and researchers of Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences were recently recognized with milestone service awards to the college, university, Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station and U of A System Division of Agriculture.
Send Fred Bourland, examines test plots for the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture cotton variety testing program during a field day at the Lon Mann Cotton Research Station near Marianna. ( UA Division of Agriculture Communications) Fred Bourland has received the A.L. Vandergriff Cotton Pioneer Award for his cotton breeding and research from the Southern Cotton Ginners Association, headquartered in Memphis. Bourland is a professor of cotton breeding and genetics for the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station and the research arm of the University of Arka...
Fred Bourland, cotton breeder and researcher at the Northeast Research and Extension Center at Keiser, examines cotton varieties being tested in research plots at the Lon Mann Cotton Research Station at Marianna. (U of A System Division of Agriculture photo by Fred Miller) KEISER, Ark. — When Fred Bourland left the family cotton farm in Mississippi County for the University of Arkansas, clear across the state in Fayetteville, he had anything but farming on his mind. “I grew up around cotton,” Bourland said. “When I went to college, I was planning to get as far away from cotton as I co...