1. Agronomy Education Center

The Department of Agronomy is still raising funds for our proposed new Agronomy Education Center to be built on the Agronomy Farm just north of the main K-State campus.

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The Kansas Mesonet, available on Agronomy’s Weather Data Library (WDL) web site, provides a detailed, near real-time look at weather and soil conditions in Kansas. Each site reports a set of automated data, some of which are similar to data reported by the National Weather Service. But the Mesonet adds additional sites to what’s in the NWS full-service network, and more sites are being added. This fills in many areas of Kansas otherwise unserved.

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The Department of Agronomy’s Crops, Weeds, and Soil Judging Teams have made a truly amazing tradition of winning national and regional contests. Teams from other states look to the K-State teams as the ones to beat every year, but our K-State teams have stayed on top. Here’s a wrap-up of the winning teams from the past four years.

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After 44 years of teaching a wide range of soils courses in the Department of Agronomy at K-State, Dr. Steve Thien has retired. Literally thousands of students, and all who received their B.S. degree in agronomy from K-State, started their academic journey by taking Dr. Thien’s “Introduction to Soils” course.

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For more than 30 years, the face of wheat in Kansas has been Jim Shroyer, K-State Research and Extension crop production specialist. He has informed and entertained his “family” of producers in the state at wheat tours, field days, and meetings since he started at K-State in 1980. Shroyer retired on July 3, 2014.

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