Iqbal is new assistant professor, nutrient management and water quality specialist Friday, November 15, 2019
Read Iqbal is new assistant professor, nutrient management and water quality specialist
Heuermann Lecture to feature panelists on Nebraska’s healthy ecosystem Thursday, November 14, 2019
Strategies for meeting the global demand for food, fuel, feed and fiber while preserving Nebraska’s healthy agricultural ecosystems will be the topic of a panel discussion during the first Heuermann Lecture of the season on Nov. 25. Panelists will include Andrea Basche, assistant professor in the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture.Kirsch makes rain to study landscape runoff Monday, November 4, 2019
Read Kirsch makes rain to study landscape runoff
Schnable appointed to endowed professorship Thursday, October 31, 2019
Read Schnable appointed to endowed professorship
Six graduate students earn fellowships Tuesday, October 22, 2019
Six Department of Agronomy and Horticulture graduate students were honored with fellowships by the Agricultural Research Division and the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources at the Distinguished Fellowships and Awards Luncheon on Oct. 10. Those honored include Karen Da Silva, Srikanth Kodati, Jaspreet Kaur Sandhu, Jasprinder Singh, Osler Ortez and Hannah Stoll.Read Six graduate students earn fellowships
Huskers plant 150 trees for Nebraska U's 150th year Monday, October 21, 2019
Students in associate professor Kim Todd’s plant identification, plant design and introduction to landscape management classes gathered Oct. 16 and 17 to begin planting 150 trees in honor of the university’s sesquicentennial.Read full story at Nebraska Today
Soil Judging Team again sweeps regional competition Thursday, October 10, 2019
In a demonstration of their grit, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Soil Judging Team for the second time in three years swept the Region 5 competition Oct. 3 in Grand Island, Nebraska, beating out six other teams to earn first place finishes across the board.Read installed as chair to national viticulture society Wednesday, October 9, 2019
Read Read installed as chair to national viticulture society
Analysis IDs ag practices to fight flood, drought Thursday, October 3, 2019
A synthesis of 89 studies across six continents has helped clarify which agricultural practices hold water when it comes to helping soils soak up precipitation — a factor critical to mitigating floods, outlasting drought and stabilizing crop yields. The roots of the solution? Put down and preserve some, said the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Andrea Basche.Read full story at Nebraska Today
Early detection of changing ecosystems is aim of Nebraska-led research Wednesday, October 2, 2019
University of Nebraska–Lincoln ecologist Dirac Twidwell said it’s time to transplant this model of proactivity to a field that’s very different from medicine, but equally consequential: agricultural resilience, or the ability of ecosystems to withstand rapid and sudden transitions to an undesired state.Read full story at Nebraska Today