Crops judging team earns top honors at West Texas A&M contest Tuesday, March 1, 2022
The University of Nebraska–Lincoln Crops Judging Team competed in the West Texas A&M University Collegiate Crops Contest in Canyon, Texas, Feb. 19. As a team, the Huskers placed third overall in the four-year college division. Nebraska's winning team includes senior agronomy majors Nathan Donoghue, Katie Steffen, Korbin Kudera and Sarina Janssen. Seven of the ten teams in attendance were from four-year colleges.Read Crops judging team earns top honors at West Texas A&M contest
Nebraska Sandhills rated as world’s most intact prairie Monday, February 28, 2022
To speak with the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Dirac Twidwell is to hear the sentiment emerge as a sort of mantra. The reasons preceding the statement, and behind the sentiment, are legion.See full story in Nebraska Today
Nebraska team takes 14th in national Turf Bowl Thursday, February 24, 2022
A University of Nebraska–Lincoln turfgrass competition team earned 14th place at the 28th Annual Collegiate Turf Bowl competition Feb. 10 held at the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America Conference and Trade Show in San Diego.
The Turf Bowl, a part of the GCSAA Conference and Trade Show and presented in partnership with John Deere Golf, was held in person this year.
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2022 NUE Workshop to be held Aug. 1–3 Monday, February 21, 2022
Save the dates for the 2022 Nitrogen Use Efficiency Workshop to be held Aug. 1–3 at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. This three-day event will take place on the Nebraska Innovation Campus and East Campus.Read 2022 NUE Workshop to be held Aug. 1–3
Holding named Department of Agronomy and Horticulture associate department head Thursday, February 17, 2022
David Holding, professor in the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, began a one-year term as an associate department head on January 1.
He is assisting Martha Mamo, department head, and John Lindquist, also an associate department head, in the day-to-day decisions and future planning of the department.
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Creech named to Fenster Professorship Friday, February 11, 2022
Cody Creech, University of Nebraska–Lincoln associate professor of agronomy and horticulture and Nebraska Extension dryland cropping systems specialist at the Panhandle Research and Extension Center in Scottsbluff, has been named the Fenster Professor of Dryland Agriculture.
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63 Agronomy and Horticulture students make CASNR Dean's List Thursday, February 10, 2022
Sixty-three undergraduate students in the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture have been named to the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources fall 2021 Dean’s list.Read 63 Agronomy and Horticulture students make CASNR Dean's List
Environmental Protection Agency Renews Enlist Product Registrations with New Control Measures: What Does that Mean for Nebraska Growers? Tuesday, February 8, 2022
Enlist corn and Enlist soybean producers in 32 Nebraska counties will be restricted on the use of two herbicides, Enlist ONE and Enlist DUO, in the 2022 growing season after the United States Environmental Protection Agency renews registrations.Go big infrared: Husker imaging system streamlines analysis of seeds Thursday, February 3, 2022
To observe traits that can’t be easily seen, Husker researchers have turned to the wavelengths that can’t be, either. The University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Hongfeng Yu, Tian Gao and Harkamal Walia have developed a new imaging system that could help capture the nutritional value of seeds from myriad crops by first capturing the invisible wavelengths reflecting from them.See full story in Nebraska Today
Nebraska research studying benefits of grass restoration amid cropland Friday, January 28, 2022
A new study led by Daren Redfearn, professor of agronomy and horticulture and forage systems specialist, is exploring whether a targeted restoration of perennial grasses amid cropland could bring about a variety of benefits.See full story in Nebraska Today