Agronomy and Horticulture

Aerial of Nebraska Football Practice Fields freshly sodded with Bermudagrass.
Aerial of Nebraska Football Practice Fields freshly sodded with Bermudagrass.

Nebraska Turfgrass Field Day showcases cutting-edge research and athletic collaboration

The afternoon session of the 2025 Nebraska Turfgrass Field Day was the groundbreaking partnership between UNL Turfgrass Science and Nebraska Athletics — a collaboration aimed at building and maintaining two state-of-the-art bermudagrass practice fields for Husker Football. Continue reading…

More details at: https://go.unl.edu/jsp3
 
Agronomy major Livia Farmer (left) and plant and landscape systems major Madelyn Smith survey 5-week-old, Fast-Flowering Mini-Maize plants grown in various CO2 environments during the new Experiments in Plant Science course.
Agronomy major Livia Farmer (left) and plant and landscape systems major Madelyn Smith survey 5-week-old, Fast-Flowering Mini-Maize plants grown in various CO2 environments during the new Experiments in Plant Science course.

Experiments in plant science

David Holding and Don Lee designed a new one-credit course called Experiments in Plant Science, where students perform novel research to investigate how a changing environment can induce changes in vegetative and reproductive growth and anatomy. Continue reading…

More details at: https://go.unl.edu/b9ut
 
Christian Stephenson talks to participants about squash variety evaluation during the Grow Local Field Tour 2025 on the University of Nebraska–Lincoln East Campus.
Christian Stephenson talks to participants about squash variety evaluation during the Grow Local Field Tour 2025 on the University of Nebraska–Lincoln East Campus.

Nebraska specialty crop and local food systems tour held June 24

More than 50 people attended the Grow Local Field Tour 2025 on June 24. They braved the intermittent rain on the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s East Campus to learn about specialty crop and local food systems research at the university led by Agronomy and Horticulture's Sam Wortman. Continue reading…

More details at: https://go.unl.edu/yf7x
 
Exstrom teaches Grand Island Public Schools students about controlled burns at the Golden Sower awards ceremony. The students' curriculum includes a book about wildfires and controlled burns.
Exstrom teaches Grand Island Public Schools students about controlled burns at the Golden Sower awards ceremony. The students' curriculum includes a book about wildfires and controlled burns.

Exstrom’s arborist certifications expand her extension service

Exstrom is a horticulture, landscape and environmental systems extension educator with a horticulture focus for the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She has worked for Nebraska Extension for 17 years. Continue reading…

More details at: https://go.unl.edu/qc7j
 
The 2025 Great Plains Water Conference will be held in Omaha on September 17 and 18, 2025.
The 2025 Great Plains Water Conference will be held in Omaha on September 17 and 18, 2025.

2025 Great Plains Water Conference to be held in Omaha

Featuring experts from Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Iowa, Missouri, South Dakota, and North Dakota, the 2025 Great Plains Water Conference will focus on securing water resources for tomorrow and will be held at the University of Nebraska Omaha campus. Continue reading…

More details at: https://watercenter.unl.edu/news/2025-great-plains-water-conference-securing-water-resources-tomorrow/
 
Todd Whitney demonstrates a large drop-down nozzle for broadcast cover crop seed application with a ‘floater’ spray applicator at Husker Harvest Days.
Todd Whitney demonstrates a large drop-down nozzle for broadcast cover crop seed application with a ‘floater’ spray applicator at Husker Harvest Days.

Extension is ‘a calling’ for Whitney

Todd Whitney is an irrigation and cropping systems extension educator for the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and extension educator affiliate in the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture housed at the West Central Research, Extension and Education Center in North Platte. Continue reading…

More details at: https://go.unl.edu/epah
 
Nebraska's Carlos Urrea will lead the International Bean Improvement Cooperative and the North American Pulse Improvement Association Biennial Meeting, hosted by the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and the BIC, Nov. 4–6 in Lincoln.
Nebraska's Carlos Urrea will lead the International Bean Improvement Cooperative and the North American Pulse Improvement Association Biennial Meeting, hosted by the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and the BIC, Nov. 4–6 in Lincoln.

International bean and pulse meeting to be held in Lincoln

The Bean Improvement Cooperative and the North American Pulse Improvement Association will hold their International Biennial Meeting Nov. 4–6 in Lincoln, Nebraska. Continue reading…

More details at: https://go.unl.edu/ne8g
 
The Nebraska Water Center will host a Water and Natural Resources Tour in Arizona from November 2 to November 7, 2025.
The Nebraska Water Center will host a Water and Natural Resources Tour in Arizona from November 2 to November 7, 2025.

2025 Water and Natural Resources Tour to visit Arizona in November

Join the Nebraska Water Center and Central Nebraska Public Power and Irrigation District from November 2 – 7, 2025, as we experience urban water management, winter agriculture, and transboundary aquifer management in Arizona. Continue reading…

More details at: https://watercenter.unl.edu/news/2025-water-and-natural-resources-tour-visit-arizona-november/
 
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