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Basche awarded Inspiring Early Career Scientist Award
April 9, 2024
Andrea Basche, an associate professor in cropping systems, was honored with the American Society of Agronomy Environmental Quality Section Inspiring Early Career Scientist Award, presented by the Environmental Quality Community at the ASA Awards Ceremony on Oct. 30 in St. Louis.
The primary emphasis of the Environmental Quality Section of the ASA lies in comprehending the impact of agriculture on the environment and enhancing agricultural management practices to uphold the quality of air, soil and water.
The award “recognizes worthy professionals who have made an outstanding contribution toward sustaining agriculture through Environmental Quality research, teaching, extension/public service or industry activity.”
Scholarship and fellowships awarded to agronomy and horticulture students
December 13, 2024
Team Media
2025
Market Journal, “Cover Crop Experiment”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH4GRTmqKsg
Andrea Basche, May 2025, presentation to the EPA's Harmful Algal Blooms, Hypoxia, and Nutrients Research Webinar Series, Connecting Soil Health and Water Quality in Agricultural Systems
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWnnQzeNlMQ
Andrea Basche, presentation at the 2025 Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute conference, Protecting Pulibc Health Through water Quality Management and Monitoring
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REyg1qSjVG0&list=PLSBeKOIXsg3IFUugr-M7Gi_6V9x-ja3EZ&index=17&t=1380s
Grace Pacheco, Iowa Learning Farms Webinar, June 2025, Evaluation of diverse cover crops across Nebraska: Findings from spring- and fall-planted cover crops
https://vimeo.com/showcase/10108315?video=1094468953
2024
Consider Cover Crops as Weed Control Tool
Daugherty Water for Food Podcast, March 2024
2023
Platte Basin Timelapse Project, Nine Mile Prairie: Hope the Tallgrass, October 2023
2022
BBC Future, June 2022, “How to turn your garden into a carbon sink.”
AgPhD, Sirius Satellite Radio National Radio Show, March 2022, “Cover Crops.”
2022 IANR Strategic Discussions for Nebraska, Digging Into Nebraska’s Soil Health
2021
Smithsonian Magazine, April 2021, “The Nation’s Corn Belt Has Lost a Third of its Topsoil”
John Deere Magazine, March 2021, “Infiltration’s Impact: Healthy soil will have ripple effects on extreme weather events.”
Civil Eats, Why Aren’t USDA Conservation Programs Paying Farmers More to Improve Their Soil? January 2021
2020
Nebraska Farmer, November 2020, “Aerial imagery brought to cover crop management.
Midlands Business Journal, October 2020, “Interest in regenerative agriculture growing."
Cover Crop Strategies – Soil Quality Management vs. Quality Soil Management Podcast
Cover Crop Strategies podcast from December 2020, sponsored by Yetter Equipment, features Salvador Ramirez, Doctor of Plant Health and Postdoctoral Research Associate with the University of Nebraska and Fernanda Krupek, Agronomy Graduate Research Assistant, also at the University of Nebraska. Ramirez and Krupek discuss how the difference between soil quality management and quality soil management, strategies for measuring soil quality, and the economics of improving soil quality.
2019
Nebraska Farmer, November 2019, Identifying practices to mitigate drought, floods.
Let this soak in: roots in soil between crops can reduce flood impact, UNL researcher says, October 2019.
Wallace’s Farmer, May 2019, Cover crops can help fight weed resistance.
University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Cover crop research team receives Nebraska Environmental Trust grant, May 29, 2019.
Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources Growing Magazine: Soil – the 'Underdog Natural Resource', Spring 2019
GIZMODO Earther: Farmers in the Midwest Face Decades of Recovery as Flooding Strips Away Crucial Soil, March 21, 2019
2019 IANR Strategic Discussions for Nebraska
2018
IANR Strategic Discussions for Nebraska, Tomorrow’s Scientists: Improving communities and improving the world, Basche teaches students to communicate their science, Fall 2018.
Science Friday: The Future of Soil Under a Changing Climate
September 14, 2018
2017
CSA News Magazine: Perennially-based practices improve soil hydrology, December 2017.
Inside Climate News: ‘Spongy’ soil can help farmers combat climate change, August 2017.
AgWeek: Fighting drought and flood with soil health, August 2017.
Team Videos
Evaluating the effects of row spacing, legume intercropping, fertilizer source, and fertilizer timing on intermediate wheatgrass in eastern Nebraska
Madeline Johnston, MS defense
Soil health in Nebraska: Exploring practitioners’ needs and insights from a long-term organic farm
Ingrids Isabel Mata Vigil, MS defense
Advancing cover crop management in Eastern Nebraska: Strategies to increase biomass production and reduce corn yield impacts
Tauana Ferreira de Almeida, Ph.D. Defense
Assessing the above and below ground productivity of fall-planted cover crop cultivars in Nebraska’s diverse ecoregions
Bridget McKinley, MS defense
Summer and fall-planted cover crops across Nebraska: assessing performance using aerial imagery and evaluating short-term soil impacts
Grace Emperatriz Pacheco Jiron, MS defense
Experimentation on Nebraska Farms for Sustaining Soil Health Management
Fernanda Krupek, Graduate Research Assistant and Ph.D. Candidate
Winter Cover Crop Impacts on Weed Dynamics in Eastern and Central Nebraska
Elizabeth Oys, MSc Thesis Presentation
Collaborative Efforts to Diversify Nebraska Cropping Systems
Andrea Basche, Nebraska assistant professor of soil and water sciences
Cover Crops & Soil Health
UNL assistant professor of soil and water sciences, Andrea Basche gives us the latest findings on a years long on-farm research project that show the long-term benefits of cover crop utilization.
Cover Crop Calculator – Between fall harvest and spring planting, maximizing your cover crop growth in that time span can often prove to be challenging. However, a new predictive tool developed at the University of Nebraska can estimate cover crop growth with different planting and termination times across the state of Nebraska. This could prove to be a valuable tool for producers who utilize cover crops or those thinking about implementing them into their operations.
How Farmers Can Fight Floods and Droughts | Conservation Matters from SWCS on Vimeo.
Turning Soils into Sponges
Agricultural scientist Dr. Andrea Basche shows how farmers can reduce the impacts of floods and droughts by building healthier, more sponge-like soils.
Soil and Climate
UNL Assistant Professor, Andrea Basche, discusses her research on how the climate impacts soil. Andrea also shows off a very interesting soil experiment.
Soil Health Study
Andrea Basche, UNL Assistant Professor, and Fernanda Souza Krupek, Agronomy Graduate Research Assistant, talk about a soil health study that uses aerial imagery to measure crop yields.
Soil Management Practices
UNL Assistant Professor Dr. Andrea Basche walks us through some of the different soil management practices used during a recent Extension event. See how these different practices could help you achieve your soil health goals.