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Campus Chatter - November 14, 2018
 

More than 40 honored at 2018 AAEA’s Annual Meeting

WASHINGTON, D.C. — More than 1,700 participants attended the 2018 Agricultural and Applied Economics Assoc. (AAEA) Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., in August. AAEA recognized five Fellows and handed out 26 awards at this year’s Awards and Fellows Recognition Ceremony, including the following from this region:

•AAEA 2018 Fellows: Thomas Jayne from Michigan State University

•Undergraduate Academic Bowl: University of Kentucky (Josey Moore, Zoe Gabrielson, Erica Rogers)

•Undergraduate Outstanding Paper Competition: Skyler Schneekloth of Iowa State University

•Outstanding Chapter Award: Iowa State University (Advisor Georgeanne Artz)

•Graduate Student Case Study Competition: Michigan State University, advised by Robert Myers (Braeden Van Deynze, Stephan Morgan and Samantha Padilla)

•Distinguished Graduate Teaching, 10 or More Years’ Experience: Gerald Shively, Purdue University

•Distinguished Extension, Less than 10 Years’ Experience: Lee Schulz, Iowa State University

•Distinguished Extension, 10 or More Years’ Experience: Gary Schnitkey, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

•Distinguished Outreach: Community and Economic Development Initiative of Kentucky

•Bruce Gardner Memorial Prize for Applied Policy Analysis: Scott Irwin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Dwight Sanders, Southern Illinois University

•Anthony Grano Scholarship: Chinonso Etumnu, Purdue University

•Sylvia Lane Mentor Fellowship: Graciela Andrango, Western Illinois University

•Chester O. McCorkle Jr. Student Scholarship: Jose Nuno, Purdue University

Timac Agro USA announces Accelerated Leadership Program

READING, Pa. — Timac Agro USA, a leading provider of crop nutritional solutions, has launched an Accelerated Leadership Program to recruit candidates to join its team of visionaries in the agricultural industry. Timac aims to provide current technology and invest in future innovations to produce stronger and healthier crops that are protected against environmental stress and that provide confidence and predictability to growers.

Candidates under consideration for this new leadership program will be emerging college students with work experience in the range of five years. They will undergo an in-depth training process with a professional rotation of key business units over a four-month period.

Candidates will be recruited and interviewed in 2018 for an enrollment in the 2019 program. Submission deadline is Nov. 23; résumés are to be submitted via the Accelerated Leadership Program webpage at https://get.timacagroaccelerated.com

The program will rotate enrollees through several divisions of the organization including finance, operations, sales and supply chain. At the end of the program the enrollees are placed into their leadership role where they can further develop their skills and be mentored by other leaders within the company.

Grant will help define best practices for no-till organic grain

KUTZTOWN, Pa. — Farmers are in a tough spot when it comes to controlling weeds. Since conventional herbicides aren’t an option, many choose to use tillage, mechanically turning over the soil to upend weeds. However, tillage can take a toll on soil health and cause runoff.

To help develop solutions for these farmers, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Iowa State University and the Rodale Institute are embarking on a new project to assess current technologies that could be used in no-till organic systems, and determine which practices will help farmers protect soil health in their fields.

The project is funded through a grant from the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) that totals $2.2 million, including matching funds. Researchers will have the opportunity to conduct trials at various sites to test planter technologies, cover crop types, planting dates, weed management strategies and more in the first three years of the grant-funded project.

They will then use their findings to select the most promising management systems and test them across all of the participating field sites during the project’s fourth year. Researchers will also conduct on-farm demonstrations for farmers and work to understand farmer perceptions and attitudes toward adopting various practices.

They aim to integrate all of this knowledge into guidelines for growers and to disseminate the information throughout organic grain growing regions.

Cross wins Epsilon Sigma Phi Award for leadership, service

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The humble gentleman who leads thousands of employees at the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture (UTIA) statewide is being recognized for his commitment to extension and outreach work.

UTIA Chancellor Tim Cross has been selected as the 2018 Distinguished Service Ruby Award winner by Epsilon Sigma Phi (ESP), an organization that includes thousands of extension professionals from land grant universities. He received the organization’s most prestigious accolade at the ESP national meeting Oct. 2 in Manhattan, Kan.

Cross has an academic career that spans three decades and three states, including time at Fort Hays State University in Kansas and Oregon State University. In 1994, he joined UTIA in the Department of Agricultural Economics. He has also served as dean of UT extension and is UTIA’s third chancellor.

Linda Bower, UT extension Eastern Region leader for Family and Consumer Sciences, is the recipient of the ESP Administrative Leadership Award for her outstanding service as an extension educator and for leadership. Bower is among four recipients for this national recognition.

Ann Berry, with UT Family and Consumer Sciences and a past ESP national president, received the Continued Excellence Award for her exceptional service in delivering educational programs that significantly impact and improve lives. She has worked with extension in Louisiana and Tennessee.

Heather Sedges Wallace, also with UT Family and Consumer Sciences, was honored by ESP with the Joint Council of Extension Professionals Award for Creative Excellence. Wallace was recognized for her innovative work that catalyzed rural community engagement in addressing wellness and childhood trauma.

UT welcomes Grove as assistant professor, wildlife veterinarian

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The University of Tennessee Department of Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries recently gained new faculty with the hire of Daniel Grove, DVM. His position, extension assistant professor and wildlife veterinarian, is a new appointment and will extend extension coverage and resources related to wildlife health across the state.

His office is located at the Central Region extension office in Nashville, where he works closely with the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency (TWRA). His primary duties involve educational outreach for public and private audiences in Tennessee and beyond, and providing technical guidance to TWRA wildlife health programs.

This position will allow Grove to address and mitigate diseases that affect wildlife, domestic animals and humans such as chronic wasting disease, avian influenza and white-nose syndrome, among others.

Eastern Kentucky University unveils robotic milking system

RICHMOND, Ky. — Eastern Kentucky University staff, Governor’s Office of Agricultural Policy (GOAP) staff, Kentucky Agriculture Commissioner Ryan Quarles, state and local officials and members of the community attended a ribbon-cutting and tour of the EKU’s new state-of-the-art robotic milking system last month.

EKU received $179,373 in Kentucky Agricultural Development Funds to purchase and install an Automated Milking System (AMS) for demonstration, education and research at its Meadowbrook Farm.

“Technology is constantly upgrading agriculture. Who would have ever thought that cows could be milked without the dairyman going to the barn? Cows are milking themselves,” said Warren Beeler, executive director of GOAP.

In partnership with the Kentucky Dairy Development Council, EKU’s Meadowbrook Farm hopes to improve economic prospects for dairy farmers by increasing exposure of this technology to Kentucky producers. The robotic milking system will benefit both existing dairy farmers across the state as well as agriculture students studying dairy production.

For more information, contact Justin McKinney at 859-622-2061 or justin.mckinney@eku.edu

Applications open for university-level agriscience competition

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Since its inception in 2005, the Alltech Young Scientist (AYS) has had participation of more than 60,000 students from more than 70 countries and has awarded $1 million in prizes. Applications are now open for the 2019 competition.

The Alltech Young Scientist competition began in 2005 as an expression of founder Dr. Pearse Lyons’ passion for curiosity and innovation within education. Most importantly, he wanted to inspire and showcase the talents of university students who represent tomorrow’s solutions for our planet’s shared future.

New for 2019, the AYS competition is open exclusively to university graduate students (master’s degree and Ph.D.), and professor nominations are no longer required. Entrants will compete first within their home regions of North America, Latin America, Asia-Pacific or Europe/Africa. Regional winners will be invited to attend an all-expenses-paid Alltech Young Scientist Discovery Week in Lexington, where they will compete in the global competition during ONE: The Alltech Ideas Conference (ONE19) in May. The prizes include $10,000 for the global graduate winner.

Registration will close on Jan. 31. Students may submit scientific papers on topics such as animal health and nutrition, crop science, agriculture analytical methods, food chain safety and traceability, human health and nutrition and other agriscience-related sectors. Paper submission may be completed online, and regional winners will be announced in April.

For more information and to register, visit AlltechYoungScientist.com

 

11/15/2018