Organic farming roundtable series offered this spring Friday, December 23, 2016
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Project aims to develop winter malting barley cultivars adapted to the Great Plains Thursday, December 22, 2016
The Brewers Association has awarded four regional small grains breeders and geneticists with a grant to develop winter malting barley cultivars adapted to the Great Plains. The hope is to develop a new region for national malsters to purchase malting barley. Equally important it would also provide a local source for regional craft brewers. The goal is to bring barley production back to the lower Great Plains.Read Project aims to develop winter malting barley cultivars adapted to the Great Plains
Project aims to boost global wheat yields Monday, December 19, 2016
A University of Nebraska-Lincoln research team has earned a three-year grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to develop higher-yielding lines of hybrid wheat that can meet rising demand for the staple food crop. Nebraska's Stephen Baenziger, professor of agronomy and horticulture and Nebraska Wheat Growers presidential chair, will lead the project in conjunction with colleagues from Texas A&M University, Kansas State University and the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center.Swedish Academy of Sciences honors Cassman Thursday, December 15, 2016
The Swedish Academy of Sciences has named University of Nebraska-Lincoln agronomist Kenneth Cassman the recipient of the 2017 Bertebos Prize for promoting education and research in the food chain. The Bertebos Prize is awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry and is sometimes referred to by scientists as Sweden’s “Nobel Prize in Agriculture.”
Duffy chosen for Western Nursery and Landscape Association Student Advisory Committee Wednesday, December 14, 2016
University of Nebraska–Lincoln horticulture major Nathan Duffy has been selected for the Western Nursery and Landscape Association’s Student Advisory Committee. Duffy is one of ten top horticulture students in the Midwest to be invited to join the committee.Read Duffy chosen for Western Nursery and Landscape Association Student Advisory Committee
Study: Maximizing grain yields won't meet future African needs Tuesday, December 13, 2016
Maximizing cereal crop yields in sub-Saharan Africa would still fail to meet the region’s skyrocketing grain demand by 2050, according to a new study from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln including researchers Kenneth Cassman and Patricio Grassini, Wageningen University and multiple African institutions.Urrea receives Omtvedt Innovation Award Thursday, December 8, 2016
Carlos Urrea, University of Nebraska–Lincoln associate professor of agronomy and horticulture was awarded the Omtvedt Innovation Award at the Nebraska East Union on Dec. 1. He is a dry bean breeding specialist located at the Panhandle Research and Extension Center in Scottsbluff, Nebraska.Read Urrea receives Omtvedt Innovation Award
Foster and Wacker awarded 2016 Western Seed Association scholarships Tuesday, December 6, 2016
Kelsey Foster and Paige Wacker, University of Nebraska–Lincoln horticulture and agronomy majors respectively, were awarded 2016 Western Seed Association scholarships at the WSA Banquet in Kansas City on Nov. 7. The WSA scholarships are awarded based on scholarship and an interest in the seed industry.Read Foster and Wacker awarded 2016 Western Seed Association scholarships
USDA Borlaug Fellows begin Nebraska stay Tuesday, December 6, 2016
United States Department of Agriculture Foreign Ag Service Borlaug Fellows, Keziah Ndungu, of Kenya, and Prudence Lugendo, of Tanzania, arrived in September to begin their fellowship at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Their mentors are Professor Charles Wortmann, Department of Agronomy and Horticulture and Tsegaye Tadesse, research associate professor and climatologist in the School of Natural Resources with the National Drought Mitigation Center, respectively.Full story at IANR Global Engagement News
Graduate students take top honors at annual meetings Thursday, December 1, 2016
Leonardo Bastos, Madhav Bhatta, Joel Crowther, Manbir Kaur Rakkar and Michael Sindelar took top honors at the 2016 ASA, CSSA and SSSA International Annual Meeting competitions held Nov. 6–9 in Phoenix, Arizona. Bastos also took top honors at the 46th Annual North Central Extension Industry Soil Fertility Conference in Des Moines, Iowa on Nov. 2.Read Graduate students take top honors at annual meetings