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Benefits of cover crops extend to dry areas Wednesday, March 9, 2022

Cover crops do far more than cover soils. They provide an array of benefits, such as the ability to reduce soil erosion and increase soil health. They can help attract pollinators, repel pests, turn into ‘green manure,’ or can be used as feed for livestock.

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Basche, Todd and Dunn receive Family and Friends Recognition Awards Monday, March 7, 2022

Andrea Basche, left, Kim Todd and Cheryl Dunn are honored at the 2022 Parents’ Recognition Awards ceremony March 4. Mike Jackson | Student Affairs Marketing & Communication

Andrea Basche, Kim Todd and Cheryl Dunn, faculty and staff in the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, were honored for their outstanding support to students during the University of Nebraska–Lincoln Family & Friends Recognition Awards ceremony March 4 in the Willa Cather Dining Complex.

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Stephenson appointed interim director of Panhandle Research and Extension Center Thursday, March 3, 2022

As the search continues for the next permanent director of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln Panhandle Research, Extension and Education Center at Scottsbluff, Mitchell Stephenson, University of Nebraska–Lincoln Department of Agronomy and Horticulture associate professor, and forage and range management specialist at the Panhandle Center, has been appointed interim director.

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Grassini partner in project to optimize crop variety placement in Sub-Saharan Africa Thursday, March 3, 2022

Patricio Grassini, associate professor in the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, is a partner in a project led by Regrow Ag called Niche that aims to optimize crop variety placement in Sub-Saharan Africa. Niche was awarded a $5M, 4-year grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and is supported by NASA Harvest, the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and an African-based nonprofit organization called One Acre Fund.

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Crops judging team earns top honors at West Texas A&M contest Tuesday, March 1, 2022

Korbin Kudera set an individual record for Nebraska by earning best individual score at the contest, first in math, first in lab practical, third in the agronomic exam and third in plant and seed identification.

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.

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Nebraska Sandhills rated as world’s most intact prairie Monday, February 28, 2022

After analyzing satellite-based imagery from NASA and the European Space Agency, Husker researchers have concluded that the Nebraska Sandhills are among the grasslands best positioned for long-term conservation.

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.

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Nebraska team takes 14th in national Turf Bowl Thursday, February 24, 2022

Nebraska turfgrass and landscape management majors Benjamin Toalson (from left), Eric Kovarik and Jacob Ocholik took 14th place at the 28th Annual Collegiate Turf Bowl competition Feb. 10.

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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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 speaks to farmers at a recent High Plains Ag Lab Field Day

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 Agronomy and Horticulture students make the CASNR Dean's List.

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.

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