Practicing Agriculture News Writing

McKay discussing on Mosquito

Jonesboro- Dr. Tanja McKay is discussing about the mosquitos at agricultural communication class on Thursday at department of journalism, Arkansas State University.

McKay is discussing about the mosquito life cycle, diseases transmitted from mosquito and the prevention that is needed to be done from mosquito to the agricultural communication class early morning at 7:30 am.

Last month Arkansas State was affected by the flood where most of the counties were under severe weather of flood warning. After entering the flood water into the field and the communities there is high chance of increase in the mosquito which might result of epidemic diseases. For the information, agriculture communication instructor Dr. Lillie Fears had invited MacKay as a guest speaker in the class.

Dr. MacKay has her research interest on mosquito, dung beetles and other insects. She has published her numerous research papers in different journals.

Communication Student’s at agricultural lab

Jonesboro- Students of agricultural communication of Arkansas State University is visiting Agricultural lab on this Wednesday at 7:30 am.

During the visit students will be provided information about the lab by specialists Dr. John Humphrey. Humphrey is assistant professor at agriculture department. Class will be visiting

biomass field test plots, oil seed test plots and tour to the different agricultural farms.

After the visit students are supposed to write an article regarding to the information they got from the field visit. Even they are supposed to post some information that they learned from the tour and discussion with Dr. Humphrey.