Lana Johnson

1 month ago | thefencepost.com | Lana Johnson

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Crop Performance Testing Program will launch its annual wheat variety tours in June, featuring seven field locations from Jefferson to Banner County. Hosted by local farmer-cooperators and university farm managers, these tours highlight 84 unique wheat varieties and experimental lines being tested across the state. Department of Agronomy and Horticulture’s associate professor Cody Creech and research associate professor Amanda Easterly will lead the tours.

1 month ago | news.unl.edu | Lana Johnson

The University of Nebraska–Lincoln Crop Performance Testing Program will launch its annual wheat variety tours in June, featuring seven field locations from Jefferson to Banner County. Hosted by local farmer-cooperators and university farm managers, these tours highlight 84 unique wheat varieties and experimental lines being tested across the state. Cody Creech, associate professor in agronomy and horticulture, and Amanda Easterly, research associate professor, will lead the tours.

1 month ago | news.unl.edu | Lana Johnson

A retirement reception for Paul Read, professor of agronomy and horticulture, is 2 to 5 p.m. May 15 at the Goodding Learning Center, 280 Plant Sciences Hall. Read will present a seminar, “A Horticulturist’s Professional Journey of Over 60 Years," at 2 p.m. A reception will follow the seminar. Read retires May 31 after 38 years of teaching, research and extension work at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He joined the Department of Horticulture to serve as its leader in 1987.

1 month ago | agronomy.unl.edu | Lana Johnson

The University of Nebraska–Lincoln Soil Judging Team dug into the Soils Judging Contest at the 2025 North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture judging conference in Canyon, Texas, April 9-12. The students readied their soil knives and rock hammers taking first place in the Soils Judging Contest in a face-off with about 80 students from 14 other four-year colleges and universities from across the United States.

Feb 19, 2025 | news.unl.edu | Lana Johnson

The 2025 McFadden Symposium "Anticipating Change: Utilizing new Tools and Traits to Secure the Future of Wheat" is set for 7:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. on March 3 at the Nebraska Innovation Campus Conference Center in Lincoln, 2021 Transformation Drive. The McFadden symposium is held biennially to memorialize Edgar S. McFadden and learn from leading wheat scientists who continue his legacy of service to the industry.