The University of Nebraska–Lincoln Crops Judging Team placed fourth at the Iowa State University crops judging contest on March 4 in Ames, Iowa. Team members include junior plant and landscape systems majors Daniel Frey, Logan Nelson, Kailey Ziegler, Zach Nienhueser and Will Stalder, and sophomore Maggie Walker.
Nine teams competed including Iowa State University, Kansas State University, Murray State, Michigan State, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, the University of Wisconsin-River Falls, West Texas A&M and Western Illinois.
“These regional crops team contests are an opportunity for our team to measure their progress in being prepared for the knowledge and decision making needed to be professional agronomists,” team coach Don Lee said.
Stadler was the team’s top scorer overall, placing 15th individually among 64 competitors from all nine four-year institutions.
The contest had four sections which took an hour each to complete. The students had to identify dozens of weed and crop species from plants and seeds, apply math correctly to make real-world agronomy decisions, determine the cause of crop management problems, and test their overall knowledge of agronomy facts.
Source: unl.edu
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