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Grassland Studies fall seminar series opens Aug. 30 Wednesday, August 25, 2021

The 26th annual fall seminar series offered by the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Center for Grassland Studies will include 13 presentations on topics related to climate change and grassland ecosystem services, carbon sequestration, collaborative adaptive rangeland management, pollinators in public and private spaces, and seeded perennial grasslands.

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2021 Herbicide-resistant Palmer amaranth Management Field Day featured research and demonstrations Wednesday, August 18, 2021

Amit Jhala discusses a project for control of herbicide-resistant Palmer amaranth in a field near Carleton, Nebraska.

The University of Nebraska–Lincoln Herbicide-Resistant Palmer amaranth Management Field Day featured research and demonstrations by the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture Weed Science team and Nebraska Extension near Carleton on June 28. The field day was organized in a grower’s field infested with acetolactate synthase inhibitors, atrazine and glyphosate-resistant Palmer amaranth and funded by a grant from the Nebraska Corn Board.

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11 students earn degrees Friday, August 13, 2021

Agronomy and Horticulture Department Head Martha Mamo (third from right) celebrates with Elnazsadat Hosseinighdam (from left), Lindsey Overmyer, Shawn McDonald, Kailon Lang, Dinesh Panday and Jasmine Mausbach at the department graduation reception Aug. 13.

The University of Nebraska–Lincoln will confer more than 600 degrees during commencement exercises Aug. 13 and 14 at Pinnacle Bank Arena. Among those will be 11 students from the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture and Doctor of Plant Health.

The arena, 400 Pinnacle Arena Drive, will host a ceremony for students earning graduate and professional degrees at 3 p.m. Aug. 13 and one for those earning bachelor’s degrees at 9 a.m. Aug. 14. Doors open to the public at 1:30 p.m. Aug. 13 and 7:30 a.m. Aug. 14.

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2021 Weed Management Field Day presentations available online Monday, August 2, 2021

Trey Stephens, agronomy master’s student, discusses a project of interaction of planting green and pre-emergence herbicides on weed control in soybean.

The University of Nebraska–Lincoln Weed Management Field Day featured research and demonstrations by the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture Weed Science team and Nebraska Extension at Nebraska’s South Central Agricultural Laboratory near Clay Center on June 23.

Field day presentations were recorded and are available online at https://agronomy.unl.edu/2021-weed-management-field-day-videos.

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53 Agronomy and Horticulture students named to Dean’s List Friday, July 30, 2021

Fifty-three Agronomy and Horticulture students have been named to the CASNR Dean's List.

Fifty-three undergraduate students in the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture have been named to the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources spring 2021 Dean’s List.

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Husker researcher part of multi-university effort to improve ag decision-making Friday, July 30, 2021

Sierra Conway, an undergraduate student at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, collects RNA from a set of diverse corn varieties that her research team is growing and studying at the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture research fields in Lincoln.

The National Science Foundation and U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture announced a five-year, $20 million grant to establish the AI Institute for Resilient Agriculture, or AIIRA. A collaboration of eight institutions is launching the institute with the aim of deploying digital twins, powered by advances in artificial intelligence, throughout the agricultural space. The AIIRA research team, which includes Husker plant geneticist James Schnable, believes the technology may help ramp up food production by enabling farmers to increase yields and plant breeders to strategically improve varieties.

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‘The Biggest Grower’ participants tour East Campus and learn about agronomy, horticulture, landscape design Thursday, July 29, 2021

Nebraska high school students and their families listen to Stacy Adams, The Biggest Grower program coordinator, speak about speciality crop production near the East Campus Hops Planting Garden on June 30.

Nebraska high school students and their families attended The Biggest Grower Day June 30 on the University of Nebraska–Lincoln East Campus as part of gardening competition they are involved in this summer.

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Agronomy and Horticulture Alumna Spotlight: Christine Barta Thursday, July 8, 2021

Meet University of Nebraska–Lincoln CASNR and horticulture alumna Christine Barta in this week's Agronomy and Horticulture Alumna Spotlight.

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Knox announces retirement from Nebraska Crop Improvement Association Thursday, July 1, 2021

Steve Knox, Nebraska Crop Improvement Association secretary/manager and affiliate with the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, retires July 1. Knox has led the NCIA since 2001. He started with the Association on March 1, 1998, as the field services supervisor. In 2000, he stepped into the interim manager position and was named secretary/manager in 2001 by the NCIA Board of Directors.

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Twidwell among university inventors listed on U.S. patents Wednesday, June 30, 2021

Twenty-three University of Nebraska–Lincoln inventors are listed on U.S. patents in April – June 2021.

Congratulations to all University of Nebraska–Lincoln inventors who are listed on U.S. patents in April – June 2021, including Department of Agronomy and Horticulture Associate Professor Dirac Twidwell.

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