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A student sifts through a soil sample in the soil judging pit on East Campus.

Huskers take 4th at national soil judging contest

April 7, 2023

Agriculture & Environment

The Biggest Grower winner, Yve Nelson of Lincoln, shows off her competition garden.

Gardening competition educates, instills confidence in Nebraska students

October 14, 2022

The 2022 NUE Workshop with be held Aug. 1–3 hosted by the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Craig Chandler | University Communication

Nebraska U to host national nitrogen use workshop

June 14, 2022

Charles “Chuck” Francis

Francis to retire after 45 years at Nebraska

June 13, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

The Biggest Grower competition, hosted by the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture and Nebraska Extension, returns for its third year in May.

Biggest Grower competition returns in May

April 13, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

Sarina Janssen, a senior agronomy major (from left), and Benjamin Janssen, a junior plant biology major, with course instructor Andrea Basche, identify plants grown for the Cover Crop Challenge activity in Agronomy 425/825 Cover Crops in Agroecosystems.

Nebraska faculty lead one-of-a-kind national cover crop course

March 30, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

Ellen Paparozzi

Paparozzi to retire after 40-year career

December 15, 2021

Nebraska high school students and their families listen to Stacy Adams, The Biggest Grower program coordinator, speak about speciality crop production near the East Campus Hops Planting Garden on June 30. Lana Koepke Johnson | Agronomy and Horticulture

‘Biggest Growers’ tour East Campus, learn about agronomy, horticulture, landscape design

August 3, 2021

Agriculture & Environment

Nebraska Extension and the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture will again be offering a student gardening competition this summer. | Shutterstock

Biggest Grower competition returning this spring

April 9, 2021

Agriculture & Environment

The Biggest Grower competition offers Nebraska high school students the opportunity to learn how to start their own garden and small growing operation. | Shutterstock

Biggest Grower offers summer learning, scholarships to high schoolers

May 6, 2020

On his farm near Santa Ana, El Salvador, Carlos Martinez stands in a sugarcane field plowed with a tractor and machinery he built. Carlos Eduardo Somoza Vargas

Martinez discovers Nebraska through online education

April 3, 2020