Cal Poly hosted the California State FFA Finals completion on Saturday, April 30, marking more than eight decades of the event being hosted on the university’s campus. The event brought in more than 2,000 students from across the state to the university, according to a university news release. Participants competed in 22 events throughout the […]
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WATCH: Tractors and Trucks Race at the Cal Poly Tractor Pull
The Cal Poly Truck and Tractor Pull is an annual Open House tradition put on by the CP Tractor Pull Club. This year’s event differed from previous years both in location and time and was almost canceled until the rodeo program lended use of its grounds. Mustang News reporter Victoria Bochniak takes us behind the […]
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Watch: Students work with baby horses during foaling season
Foaling season at the Cal Poly Equine Center is officially underway. Students enrolled in the animal science foaling enterprise class get a unique opportunity to experience every step of the process. Mustang News reporter Madison Vernon shows us how students are involved in caring for these baby horses.
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NAMA team hopes to renew excitement for agricultural marketing at Cal Poly
This winter quarter, eight agribusiness students will start working on a marketing challenge: to promote a robotics company that makes products to help harvest produce. These students are members of Cal Poly’s National Agri-Marketing Association (NAMA) team. They will create a business marketing strategy for the robotics client, and present it at a national competition […]
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Cal Poly Agribusiness Club to host annual career fair
Since May, agricultural business junior Jack Busch has been organizing the annual Ag Showcase — a career fair with an emphasis on agriculture but open to students of all majors. This week, Busch’s work is coming into fruition. The 33rd annual Ag Showcase, put on by the Agribusiness Management and National Agricultural Marketing Association Club, […]
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Cal Poly faculty participate in annual ‘Climate Solutions Now’ conference
The Initiative of Climate Leadership and Resilience (ICLR) hosted their annual Climate Solutions Now conference, an event coordinated across 12 different industries featuring professionals speaking on climate change and sustainability. Cal Poly professors and alumni presented their work on various tracks within sustainability, including agriculture and agribusiness, campus facilities and operations and climate communication and […]
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Brookshire Farm brings ‘agri-entertainment’ to San Luis Obispo
Big, small, orange, white… Brookshire Farms sells all sorts of pumpkins and gourds throughout October while also offering entertainment for all ages. From hayrides, to pumpkin patches, to corn cannons, co-owner of Brookshire Farms, Sean Callaway, shares what the farm calls “agro-entertainment.” The farm offers a wide range of different agricultural items and activities for […]
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Microgreen business provides insight to student entrepreneurship at Cal Poly
Random roommates in Cal Poly’s residence halls might consider themselves close friends after spending an entire year together — yet even fewer do roommates become business partners. Business junior Emmanuel Rivera-Romo and public health senior Ethan Tse started as strangers, but now run a microgreen startup together. The two were able to start a successful […]
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The making of the Poly Royal Rodeo Queen
Two pink cowgirl boots. A pink helmet. A horse named Lulu. That’s all a 6-year-old Megan Sharp needed to ride around three barrels in a cloverleaf pattern at a speed she had never attempted. Up until then, she had only competed in a tamer style of events called Western Pleasure, which emphasizes the slow and […]
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MN NOW: Thursday, April 14, 2022
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Cal Poly awarded California 100 grant for agricultural research
The Cal Poly College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences (CAFES) has received a research award from California 100, the university announced in a news release. The award consists of a $90,000 grant and technical assistance from the Institute for the Future. This provides nearly two dozen students the opportunity to participate in research about […]