The spring 2017 Agronomy and Horticulture Seminar Series begins with “Using formative assessments to improve critical thinking and writing skills” at 3:30 p.m. Jan. 20 in Keim Hall, Room 150. Refreshments will be served at 3 p.m. Continue reading…
More details at: http://news.unl.edu/newsrooms/today/article/agronomy-and-horticulture-seminar-series-begins-jan-20
Kim Todd, associate professor in the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, was awarded the Outstanding Extension Leadership Mid-Career Award from Epsilon Sigma Phi for her years of dedicated leadership, service and programming to Nebraska, Extension and the university. Continue reading…
More details at: http://agronomy.unl.edu/news/todd-wins-epsilon-sigma-phi-outstanding-extension-leadership-mid-career-award
Carlos Urrea, University of Nebraska–Lincoln associate professor of agronomy and horticulture was awarded an Omtvedt Innovation Award at the Nebraska East Union on Dec. 1. He is a dry bean breeding specialist located at the Panhandle Research and Extension Center in Scottsbluff, Nebraska. Continue reading…
More details at: http://ianrnews.unl.edu/ianr-faculty-staff-honored-awards-luncheon-0
A University of Nebraska-Lincoln research team has earned a three-year grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to develop higher-yielding lines of hybrid wheat that can meet rising demand for the staple food crop. Continue reading…
More details at: http://news.unl.edu/newsrooms/today/article/project-aims-to-boost-global-wheat-yields/
The Swedish Academy of Sciences has named University of Nebraska-Lincoln agronomist Kenneth Cassman the recipient of the 2017 Bertebos Prize for promoting education and research in the food chain. Continue reading…
More details at: http://news.unl.edu/newsrooms/today/article/swedish-academy-of-sciences-honors-cassman/
Why is organic food so popular, and how are farmers responding to this new demand? These are topics to be discussed in a roundtable series to be held Monday evenings at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln East Campus. Continue reading…
University of Nebraska–Lincoln horticulture major Nathan Duffy has been selected for the Western Nursery and Landscape Association’s Student Advisory Committee. Duffy is one of ten top horticulture students in the Midwest to be invited to join the committee. Continue reading…
Four University of Nebraska agronomy students took top honors at the 2016 North Central Weed Science Society Meeting held Dec. 12-15 in Des Moines, Iowa. The four include graduate students Matthew Nelson and Thomas Butts and visiting undergraduate students Felipe Faleco and Isidor Ceperkovic. Continue reading…
Four students from the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture are among the approximately 25 students gaining experience in landscape management by helping Landscape Services maintain 617 acres on the City, East and Nebraska Innovation campuses. Continue reading…
How to deal with the urbanization and conversion of productive farmland away from food production, will be the topic of discussion in a 15-week series of courses taking place on Tuesday evenings at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln East Campus. Continue reading…
University of Nebraska–Lincoln researchers have been awarded a grant from the Brewers Association to develop winter malting barley cultivars adapted to the Great Plains. The hope is to develop a new region for national maltsters to purchase malting barley. Continue reading…
Kelsey Foster and Paige Wacker, University of Nebraska–Lincoln horticulture and agronomy majors respectively, were awarded Western Seed Association scholarships at the WSA Banquet in Kansas City on Nov. 7. Continue reading…
Five University of Nebraska–Lincoln agronomy graduate students took top honors at the 2016 American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America and Soil Science Society of America International Annual Meeting competitions held Nov. 6–9 in Phoenix, Arizona. Continue reading…