Big wins for PSM at 2024 Tri Societies Meeting San Antonio Texas
Ian Waldecker's (Sprague/Singh) poster "Optimizing Desiccation Strategies to Minimize Soybean Yield and QualityLosses" finished 1st place in the C3 division of the CSSA competition out of 27 posters.
Many more PSM people participated in the event, including:
Wallas Mendes da Silva. 3rd place in 5-minute rapid and poster competition of the Wheat Agronomists community of the ASA. “Exploring Planting Strategies and Varietal Canopy Architecture for Maximizing Winter Wheat Yield”.
Paulo Arias. 3rd place in M.S. poster competition of the C3 (Crop ecology, management, and quality) division of the CSSA. “Exploring Winter Wheat Canopy Architecture for Variety-Specific Management Strategies”.
Mason Rutgers (Wessel) poster: "A pedological investigation of a prairie-forest ecotone in Michigan's Big Prairie Desert," won 1st place in the SSSA Pedology Division.
Rachel Drobnak's (Sprunger) poster won 2nd place in the Soil Health Graduate Student Poster Competition.
C5 Turfgrass Division
Turfgrass Ecology - Oral
1st - Jackie Lyn Guevara
2nd - Ryan Bearss
Turfgrass Water Management - Oral
1st - Michael Rabe
Golf Turf Management and Remote Sensing - Oral
2nd - Payton Perkinson
SSSA Division: Soil Fertility & Plant Nutrition
PhD Student Competition (Session I)
1st - Maria Kenneth Lane Bearss
M.S. Student Competition (Session I)
1st - Spencer Fleming