John Nelson recently joined the Lancaster County Extension office as a Water and Integrated Cropping Systems Extension Educator and will serve Lancaster, Cass and Otoe counties. His focus will be working with producers in the area and helping them find research-based answers to their crop production questions. His areas of interest include precision agriculture, irrigation and soil water management, cover crops/soil health and soil fertility.
John grew up on a family farm in Eastern Colorado and farmed full-time for several years. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Soil & Crop Science from Colorado State University, master’s degree in Crop Science from North Carolina State University and doctoral degree in Agronomy from Texas Tech University. John has a diverse background in agronomy and cropping systems research and extension. He worked 3 years as a Field Agronomist at the North Central Kansas Experiment fields for Kansas State University.
You can reach John at 402-441-7180 or jnelson158@unl.edu, as well as follow him on Twitter at @NebWater_Crops.