The September 2022 CSA News cover

News & Perspectives

Presidents messages

The Societies' Annual Meeting provides many opportunities for future and current graduate students, such as poster and paper competitions.

Identifying successes and opportunities for our three societies

August 13, 2022

Meetings

The Rodale Institute Tour at this year’s Annual Meeting will begin with a welcome from CEO Jeff Moyer, who is renowned for the invention and development of the roller crimper.

Annual Meeting tours: Learn more about sustainable agriculture in the Chesapeake Bay region

August 13, 2022

Women in science

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Make your team one people want to join!

August 10, 2022

Publications

books

Publications update

August 10, 2022

Webinar: Early Career Award Opportunities in Agronomy, Crop, Soil, and Environmental Sciences

September 2022 issue

Volume 67, Issue 9

Inside this issue

The 2022 Annual Meeting theme, “Communication and Public Engagement for Healthy People and a Healthy Planet” highlights that communication is key to expanding the reach and impact of our scientific accomplishments in agronomy, crop science, and soil science. Please plan on joining us in November. Check out a preview of this year's meeting on p. 22.

Call for Papers: Phenomics of Germplasm Collection

Call for Papers: Advancement of Fate and Transport of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in the Vadose Zone

People

Member News

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Native American and Alaska Native scientists and allies

August 10, 2022

what's your story

Membership: What's your story

August 5, 2022

what's your story

Membership: What's your story

August 3, 2022

In memoriam

in memoriam

In memoriam

July 15, 2022

Science

Features

Wetlands on the farm: Potent, nutrient-capturing tools in (relatively) small packages

July 29, 2022

Lead author Logan Bundy has been fascinated by weather since a tornado struck near his Illinois hometown as a boy. Here, Bundy is out chasing storms in Nebraska. Photo courtesy of Logan Bundy.

Statistics show value in old-school crop condition reports

July 11, 2022

Science briefs

In Bear Run, a stream in western Pennsylvania, salinity is declining thanks in part to improving air quality. Photo by Ryan Utz.

Road salts are primary driver of freshwater salinization in urban areas

July 29, 2022

A screenshot from RStudio with a yield map shown in the lower righthand plot pane. The script in the upper left shows portions of the example code. Image courtesy of Emma Matcham.

New free tool processes yield estimates more efficiently

July 26, 2022

Carla Gho (left) of Corteva Agriscience and Mark Cooper of the Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation during in AQUAmax(R) field trials in Viluco, Chile. Photo by Charlie Messina.

Maize bred for drought closes yield gap

July 26, 2022

Florian Schläfli (left) and Dr. Adrian Wicki install in situ soil wetness sensors to validate the saturation values derived from electrical resistivity tomography. Photo by Stefan Boss.

New technique proves effective for landslide early warning

July 11, 2022

University of Rhode Island undergraduate student Morgana Agin samples tidal marsh soils for carbon accounting purposes. Photo by Mark Stolt.

Marsh soils are valuable carbon sinks

July 11, 2022

First author Rachel Bechtold conducts a plant survey as part of an ongoing effort to increase knowledge of species richness in prairie areas of Cherokee County, Kansas. Photo courtesy of Rachel Bechtold.

Demonstration gardens showcase rehabilitation

July 4, 2022

Corn plants at harvest time. Photo by Chad Hajda.

Weak relationship between soil health, grain quality

July 4, 2022

Students

Student award winners 2022 Western Society of Crop Science Meeting. Top: poster winners, l to r– Carl VanGessel (third), Kristen Johnson (first), and Gina Cerimele (second). Bottom: oral winners, l to r– Michael Baidoo (second), Pramod Acharya (first), and Mik Hammers (third).

Western Society of Crop Science student award winners

August 13, 2022

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