2025 Awards and Fellows
ASA, CSSA, and SSSA congratulate the 2025 award recipients and Fellows. These individuals were recognized at ceremonies held during CANVAS 2025 in Salt Lake City in November. See this year's recipients and their photos!
ASA, CSSA, SSSA urge USDA to support conservation, forestry programs
ASA, CSSA, and SSSA joined 29 other stakeholder groups on a letter to USDA led by the Food and Agriculture Climate Alliance (FACA). The letter to Secretary Rollins requested USDA move forward with funding awards and announcements for key NRCS and Forest Service programs.
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Members reach impressive milestone for scholarly output
Weindorf and Chakraborty collaborate on 100 publications together
In 2008, an associate professor from Louisiana State and a doctoral student from India began a collaboration that has lasted more than 15 years. Together, they pioneered innovations in soil sensing, AI-driven analysis, and sustainable land use and recently produced their 100th scholarly publication together. Their story is one of mentorship, collaboration, and the shared joy of discovery that transcends borders.
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Down to Earth
Our Down to Earth section publishes food, farming, and environmental concepts and research in language that is easy to understand by all, including those without formal scientific training. Visit us each week as we continue to add more sections and content.
Recent articles
Tar spot’s hidden cost to silage corn yield and nutritive value
Silage corn is a high-energy forage, critical to livestock diets. Tar spot disease is emerging as a significant contributor to losses in yield and nutritive value in the Great Lakes Region over the past decade. Researchers at Michigan State University set out to quantify the impact of tar spot on silage corn and explore management strategies.
Complementary phenotyping approaches for studying genetic basis of maize root system architecture
Clockwise from top: Large-scale maize field experiment conducted in summer 2019 at the Colorado State University Agricultural Research, Development, and Education Center in Fort Collins, CO (photo courtesy of Colorado State University); and 3D reconstruction from X-ray computed tomography scans of a mature maize root crown (photo courtesy of Keith Duncan, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, Saint Louis, MO).
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