Agronomy and Horticulture

Senior plant and landscape systems majors Briezy Kroeger, left, and Elaina Madison prepare plants for the Horticulture Club’s spring bedding plant sale in the East Campus greenhouse. Lana Koepke Johnson | Agronomy and Horticulture

Agronomy and Horticulture students benefit from early lab work, internships, clubs

Providing well-designed experiential learning early in a student’s undergraduate career can have great benefit, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Department of Agronomy and Horticulture has found. A key example is introducing freshmen to scientific lab work. Continue reading…

More details at: https://go.unl.edu/pbt8

Students receive well-rounded classroom instruction that carries over well into experiential learning in the field. Lana Koepke Johnson | Agronomy and Horticulture

Core curriculum, academic customization boost Agronomy and Horticulture students

A robust core curriculum, enhanced by flexible customization of academic emphasis areas, is producing positive results at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Department of Agronomy and Horticulture. Continue reading…

More details at: https://go.unl.edu/e20c

Graduate students Grace Emperatriz Pacheco Jiron (left), Bridget McKinley, and Vesh R. Thapa, UNL postdoctoral research associate, gather forage samples at PREEC cover crop plots. Chabella Guzman | PREEC

Cover Crop Initiative Project has first Field Day in western Nebraska

The Cover Crop Initiative Project held its first field day in early May at the Panhandle Research Education and Extension Center in Scottsbluff, Nebraska. Continue reading…

More details at: https://go.unl.edu/xj47

University of Zambia Bethel Njobvu, lab technician, left, and student Kuwabo Kuwabo set up some Mattson Cookers. Photo by Carlos Urrea

Nebraska bean breeder collaborates on bean project in Zambia

In April, Carlos Urrea, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln dry bean breeding specialist, traveled to Lusaka, Zambia, to help install Mattson Cookers and visit field experiments. Continue reading…

More details at: https://go.unl.edu/v06s

A summer’s worth of missed opportunities to harvest light can cost cornfields, and those who farm them, a sizable portion of the potential harvests they yield in the fall. New findings from Nebraska’s Kasia Glowacka and colleagues could help change that.

Refining surge protector in crops could boost yields

Awash in a rowed sea of its brethren, a corn leaf relegated to the lowest rung of its stem spends much of a June afternoon doused in shade cast by the higher-ups. Continue reading…

More details at: https://go.unl.edu/c3g2

Mia Luong, agronomy and horticulture doctoral student, picks strawberries in research fields on East Campus.

Wheat variety trial field tours across Nebraska in June

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Crop Performance Testing program will sponsor wheat variety trial field tours in six locations across Nebraska, from Perkins to Banner County, starting June 12 - 15. Continue reading…

More details at: https://go.unl.edu/mc2k

Viticulture field day is June 26

The University of Nebraska Viticulture Program and the Nebraska Winery and Grape Growers Association will host a field day June 26 at Capitol View Winery & Vineyards, 2361 Wittstruck Road, Roca, Nebraska. Continue reading…

More details at: https://go.unl.edu/64q5

Originally published June 9, 2023 - Submit an Item