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Basche awarded Inspiring Early Career Scientist Award

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.”

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Basche to receive ASA Early Career Award

Andrea Basche

August 22, 2022

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Graduate students earn fellowships and awards

Graduate students earn fellowships and awards

January 25, 2022

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Science Friday: The Future of Soil Under a Changing Climate

Science Friday: The Future of Soil Under a Changing Climate

September 14, 2018

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Students take top honors at ASA-CSSA-SSSA annual meeting

Students take top honors at ASA-CSSA-SSSA annual meeting

December 18, 2023

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14 graduate students earn fellowships and awards

14 graduate students earn fellowships and awards

November 8, 2023

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Basche is recognized for academic excellence, leadership

Basche to receive ASA Early Career Award

January 27, 2023

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Scholarship and fellowships awarded to agronomy and horticulture students

ARD CASNR Biotech Awards 2024

December 13, 2024

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Fernanda Krupek and Salvador Ramirez

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.

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2025

Advancing cover crop management in Eastern Nebraska: Strategies to increase biomass production and reduce corn yield impacts, Tauana Ferreira de Almeida, Ph.D. Defense

2024

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.” 

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."

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

2018

IANR Strategic Discussions for Nebraska, Tomorrow’s Scientists: Improving communities and improving the world, Basche teaches students to communicate their science, Fall 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.

Basche research  cover crops

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Assessing the above and below ground productivity of fall-planted cover crop cultivars in Nebraska’s diverse ecoregions
Bridget McKinley, MS defense 

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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

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Experimentation on Nebraska Farms for Sustaining Soil Health Management
Fernanda Krupek, Graduate Research Assistant and Ph.D. Candidate

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Winter Cover Crop Impacts on Weed Dynamics in Eastern and Central Nebraska
Elizabeth Oys, MSc Thesis Presentation

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Collaborative Efforts to Diversify Nebraska Cropping Systems
Andrea Basche, Nebraska assistant professor of soil and water sciences

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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.

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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.

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How Farmers Can Fight Floods and Droughts | Conservation Matters from SWCS on Vimeo.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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