
Field, Lab, Earth Podcast
Field, Lab, Earth Podcast
Podcasts are serial audio files that can be freely downloaded directly from the internet or via podcast aggregators like Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Alexa, or Spotify. Field, Lab, Earth is the podcast all about past and present advances in the fields of agronomy, crop, soil, and environmental sciences. Produced by the American Society of Agronomy (ASA), Crop Science Society of America (CSSA), and Soil Science Society of America (SSSA), it features timely research and conversations with our authors and is always freely available.
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Continuing Education Unit (CEU) Quizzes
CEU quizzes are available for all of our regular episodes. If you are a Certified Crop Adviser or Certified Professional Soil Scientist, you can find quizzes for our episodes on certifiedcropadviser.org. Podcast quizzes are also included as part of the Online Classroom Subscription.
Student Spotlight
Field, Lab, Earth features graduate and undergraduate students at the end of each episode. If you would like to be featured, please let us know by filling out this brief application form. Please note you must be a student member with ASA, CSSA, or SSSA to apply.
Recent Episodes
Interested in checking out our show? Some of our most recent episodes are below. To listen to more of our back catalog, please visit our website or search for “Field, Lab, Earth” anywhere you listen to podcasts.
Halloween Special: Spring Dead Spot with Dr. Wendell Hutchens
Spring dead spot is a disease that lies in wait before going after your turfgrasses, transforming your favorite golf course into the set of your favorite PG-13 slasher. This episode, Wendell joins me to discuss the mega gains made in the last 15 years of spring dead spot research, in hopes that someday we can turn this slow-moving monster into just the stuff of legend.
Read the featured article now. It is always freely available.
Take the CEU Quiz. (Coming soon)
Genomic Selection with Dr. Jianming Yu
Genomic Selection is a plant breeding innovation that aims to speed plant breeding by using predictions from a training model enabled by genomics and statistics to guide the breeding decisions. With around thirty years of history around this innovation, it was about time to develop a review on it. Enter Dr. Jianming Yu and his team of coauthors. This episode, we skate the surface of a topic that could go down for miles, covering key areas of genomic selection, what it is, how to use it, and where we can aim to go in the future.
Read the featured article now. It is always freely available.
The Nitrogen Value of Cover Crops with Dr. Guillermo Marcillo
Cover crops are known for their ability to provide economic and ecosystem services to farmers, including, for example, impacting soil nitrogen. But how much nitrogen, exactly, can cover crops add or remove and how do we find out? In this episode, Guillermo joins me to discuss his work collating research data to get to the bottom of cover crop nitrogen replacement values.
Read the featured article now. It is always freely available.
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