COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENT — ProHort Update

(Photo by Vicki Jedlicka, Nebraska Extension in Lancaster County)
(Photo by Vicki Jedlicka, Nebraska Extension in Lancaster County)

New this year, Extension Educator Sarah Browning offered a full-day workshop for nursery & green industry professionals, turf managers, public works employees, landscape managers, arborists and groundskeepers. Attendees learned how to create weather-ready landscapes, manage new insect pests, avoid tree risks and understand current turf fertilization recommendations. Participant evaluations indicated: 100% planned to change a tree management practice to improve tree health; 96% planned to use new practices to make the landscape they manage more weather resilient; 92% planned to use a new practice to positively identify insect pests.