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July

15

2026

Sustainable Agronomy Conference Day 2: Resilient and Adaptive Agricultural Systems

July

8

2026

Sustainable Agronomy Conference Day 1: Nutrient and Biological Inputs

In memoriam: Michael H.B. Hayes

In memoriam: Michael H. B. Hayes

June 18, 2026

Ryan Stewart using thermal imaging to understand how critical vadose zone properties affect plant heat stress. Photo courtesy of Georg Leitinger.

The science of the in-between: Why the vadose zone matters

June 17, 2026

Demo Den activity.

Demo Den: Ready-to-go activities for K-12 audiences and beyond!

June 16, 2026

Aaron Lee M. Daigh, President, Soil Science Society of America

The distance and depth problems: A thought experiment for mid-summer

June 15, 2026

From one photo to fruit count: How a model sees citrus trees of different complexity. Each image shows a real orchard photo overlaid with an AI attention map, where warmer colors indicate regions that the model weighted most heavily to estimate total fruit count. The model reads both visible fruits and overall canopy structure, arriving at a reliable count from a single smartphone photo. Photo courtesy of Hongchun Qu, first author on the study.

A smartphone can count your citrus crop

June 12, 2026

Kranthi Mandadi, director of the Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center at Weslaco

Mandadi named director of Texas A&M AgriLife center at Weslaco

June 11, 2026

Progression of low pH and high aluminum’s effect on a panel of alfalfa populations, evaluated over multiple years. Field soil pictured was naturally acidic (pH = 5) and rich in aluminum (extractable aluminum = 11 mg/kg). The best plants from the best populations were selected for crossing and advancing to another cycle of recurrent selection. Photos courtesy of Ali Missaoui, University of Georgia.

Breeding alfalfa cultivars with high yield in acidic and aluminum-rich soils

June 10, 2026

Photo courtesy of Adobe Stock/MelissaMN.

Societies join broad coalition raising concerns to Congress over USDA restructuring

June 9, 2026

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