Jhala Honored with an Award of Merit in Research by Gamma Sigma Delta Friday, April 5, 2024
Great Plains Biochar Conference set for Sept. 24 – 26 Thursday, April 4, 2024
The inaugural Great Plains Biochar Conference is set for Sept. 24–26, 2024, at the Graduate Hotel in Lincoln, Nebraska. The University of Nebraska–Lincoln, the Nebraska Biochar Initiative and the Nebraska Forest Service will serve as hosts.
This conference brings together a diversity of professionals working with biochar in research, education, agricultural application, production, industries, and trade to discuss how to bring biochar to its full potential..
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University of Nebraska–Lincoln schedules 2024 Wheat Variety Tours Thursday, April 4, 2024
IANR Water and Integrated Cropping Systems Summit was held March 7 Wednesday, April 3, 2024
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Kiesselbach and McGill receive Lifetime Achievement Award Wednesday, March 27, 2024
The late Theodore Alexander Kiesselbach and the late David P. McGill, University of Nebraska–Lincoln alumni, received the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture 2023 Alumni Lifetime Achievement Award. They will be honored at the department’s Spring Banquet at the Nebraska East Union on Monday, April 15, 2024.
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New season of ‘Backyard Farmer’ sprouts April 4 Friday, March 22, 2024
The popular lawn and garden series “Backyard Farmer” begins its 72nd season at 7 p.m. CT, Thursday, April 4 on Nebraska Public Media.
Host Kim Todd, Nebraska Extension landscape horticulture specialist, and a panel of Nebraska Extension experts and other horticulture professionals help viewers answer questions about insect pests and disease, turf, and fruits and vegetables, as well as best practices for landscape design and general horticulture topics.
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Research boosts IANR undergrads’ educational, personal development Friday, March 22, 2024
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Obituary | Richard A. Wiese Thursday, March 21, 2024
Professor Emeritus Richard A. Wiese, age 95, died Feb. 22, 2024. His 38-year career in the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture and with Nebraska Extension at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln was spent in applied research and extension soil fertility education.
Wiese was born April 3, 1928, in Stanton County, Nebraska, and raised on the family farm in Dodge County. He attended one room rural schools and graduated from Dodge High School in 1946.
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Read presents at Eastern Wine Exposition Thursday, March 21, 2024
University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Paul Read, professor of horticulture and viticulture in the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, was invited to present a featured lecture at the joint Enology/Viticulture Session at the Eastern Winery Exposition held March 12–14 in Syracuse, New York.
Co-authored by fellow agronomy and horticulture colleagues Stephen Gamet and Benjamin Loseke, Read presented “Does Crop Size Reduction Make Better Wine,” to an audience of over 150 grape and wine experts attending the conference.
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Obituary | David Andrews Wednesday, March 20, 2024
Professor Emeritus David John Andrews, age 91, died Feb. 15, 2024. Andrews served as a faculty member in the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln for 15 years.
Andrews was born June 28, 1933, in Croydon, England. He received a bachelor’s degree with honors in botany and minors in physics and organic chemistry from the University College of North Wales, Bangor, United Kingdom, in 1955. He earned a diploma in agricultural science at Selwyn College, Cambridge University, in 1956.