Jan Hygnstrom, agronomy and horticulture, discussed how to properly store liquid pesticides over the winter for a Nov. 23 episode of Successful Farming’s “Living the Country Life” program. She said if pesticides freeze, the active ingredients could separate from the inert ones and make the pesticides less effective.
Jodi Henke | Nov 23, 2020
Department of Agronomy and Horticulture researchers Fernanda Souza Krupek, agronomy graduate research assistant, and Andrea Basche, assistant professor of cropping systems, have recently applied aerial imagery to detect variability within cover crop fields — and the potential impact of cover crops on subsequent cash crops. Nebraska Farmer ran an article on the research.
Tyler Harris | Nov 06, 2020
Stephen Baenziger, agronomy and horticulture, has spent the past seven years studying the hybridization of wheat with Texas A&M’s Amir Ibrahim. The team’s newest project is supported by a $650,000 U.S. Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture grant. AgFax and Seed Today ran articles on the collaboration.
Kay Ledbetter | Oct 27, 2020
EPA approved new registrations for two “over-the-top” (OTT) dicamba products—XtendiMax with VaporGrip Technology and Engenia Herbicide—and extended the registration for an additional OTT dicamba product, Tavium Plus VaporGrip Technology. Greg Kruger, a weed science extension specialist at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, said the timing of the announcement is good for growers as many are making decisions on what to plant next year. Kruger has spent a considerable amount of time with growers, chemical companies and even the EPA to help better understand how dicamba operates. At the research level, he has worked with pesticide registrants to generate the data sets to defend the registration decisions made by EPA. His ongoing research on off-target movement and the impact of boom heights is already being considered in the registration of a second-generation dicamba product. Farm Progress ran an article about Kruger's research.
Jacqui Fatka | Oct 29, 2020
Dirac Twidwell, agronomy and horticulture, was interviewed for an Oct. 29 National Audubon Society article on woody vegetation invading grasslands. Twidwell is using the Rangeland Analysis Platform to help partners prioritize where to invest federal conservation funds on practices such as prescribed burns or cutting redcedar. More than 90% of the Great Plains is privately owned, he said, so these conservation efforts are essential for the prairie’s future.
Brianna Randall | Oct 29, 2020
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