The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Intercollegiate Crops Judging Team competed in the Southern Plains Regional crops contest on Feb. 9 at Hutchinson Community College in Hutchinson, Kansas and placed second overall in the four-year division against other two-year and four-year institutions.
Nebraska's winning team includes agronomy seniors Kolby Grint, Samantha Teten and Rodger Farr and agronomy junior Justin Zoucha.
Farr also placed fifth overall in the individual category.
Organized as a regional contest to prepare for the national contest hosted by North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture, students competed in four different components covering crop and weed identification, agronomic mathematics, general agronomic knowledge and a lab practical covering various agronomic concepts such as disease management and entomology.
This contest marks the 9th contest in a row the UNL Crops Judging team has placed in the top three places for the four-year university division.
Adam Striegel, Doctor of Plant Health student and agronomy graduate research assistant serves as the Crops Judging Team coach. Elizabeth Widder, an agronomy master's student, is assistant coach. The team’s next contest will be at the Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture in Curtis March 8.
