Big wins for PSM at 2024 Tri Societies Meeting San Antonio Texas

Dept of Plant Soil and Microbial Sciences - November 19, 2024

Ian Waldecker's (Sprague/Singh) poster "Optimizing Desiccation Strategies to Minimize Soybean Yield and QualityLosses" finished 1st place in the C3 division of the CSSA competition out of 27 posters.

Many more PSM people participated in the event, including:

Mason Rutgers (Wessel) poster: "A pedological investigation of a prairie-forest ecotone in Michigan's Big Prairie Desert," won 1st place in the SSSA Pedology Division.

Rachel Drobnak's (Sprunger) poster won 2nd place in the Soil Health Graduate Student Poster Competition.

C5 Turfgrass Division

Turfgrass Ecology - Oral

1^st - Jackie Lyn Guevara

2^nd - Ryan Bearss

Turfgrass Water Management - Oral

1^st - Michael Rabe

Golf Turf Management and Remote Sensing - Oral

2^nd - Payton Perkinson

SSSA Division: Soil Fertility & Plant Nutrition

PhD Student Competition (Session I)

1^st - Maria Kenneth Lane Bearss

M.S. Student Competition (Session I)

1^st - Spencer Fleming

College of Agriculture & Natural Resources Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences