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Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird and Bloomberg Philanthropies today announced that Lincoln will receive up to $400,000 in funding and technical support for a project to turn wood waste into biochar, a charcoal-like substance that can be used as a beneficial soil amendment.

Lincoln Awarded $400,000 for Biochar Initiative

June 30, 2022

The achievements of students, faculty and staff, past and present, were honored at the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture Spring Banquet April 18 in the Nebraska East Union.

Agronomy and Horticulture Spring Banquet honors students, faculty, staff

June 28, 2022

Seven Department of Agronomy and Horticulture faculty receive promotion and/or tenure in 2022.

7 Agronomy and Horticulture faculty receive promotion, tenure

June 14, 2022

Charles âChuckâ Francis

Francis to retire after 45 years at Nebraska

June 9, 2022

Accessing technology everywhere, even in the field.

Distance Education Program supports creation of online learning resources

May 2, 2022

Milos Zaric

Zaric places 2nd in weed science poster competition

April 29, 2022

Carlos Urrea | Photo by David Ostdiek

Urrea selected to write summary for CSA News

April 21, 2022

Nebraska's winning team includes senior agronomy majors Nathan Donoghue, Katie Steffen, Sarina Janssen and Korbin Kudera. | Jared Stander

Kudera makes Husker history at NACTA Crops Judging contest

April 11, 2022

Newest Alpha Gamma Chapter inductees pose with past officers. From left are Jamie Dasenbrock, past vice president, Sage Eckard, Cole Hammett, Benjamin Knudsen, Tori Boden, Macey Wooldrik, Jacob Nichols, Jacob Hillis, Deanna Montanez Mendoza, Nathan Starr, and Elizabeth Cunningham, past president. | Photo courtesy of Luqi Li

Alpha Gamma Chapter celebrates new inductees and 40th anniversary

April 8, 2022

M. Rosalind Morris | Photo courtesy of UNL Archives & Special Collections

A Tribute to M. Rosalind Morris, first women professor of agronomy at Nebraska

March 30, 2022

Sarina Janssen, a senior agronomy major (from left), and Benjamin Janssen, a junior plant biology major, with course instructor Andrea Basche, identify plants grown for the Cover Crop Challenge activity in Agronomy 425/825 Cover Crops in Agroecosystems. Students selected their own cover crop mixes. Photo by Lana Koepke Johnson | Agronomy and Horticulture

Nebraska faculty lead one-of-a-kind national cover crop course

March 24, 2022

Lisa Hilfiker

Hilfiker is new administrative associate for graduate support

March 18, 2022