Agronomy Ambassador Blog

This semester seems to have flown by! Although it has been a quick semester, campus has still been full of life. I spent a weekend painting pottery with friends, attended several basketball games in Mackey, spent countless hours preparing for class presentations, and most recently watched the Memorial Union Christmas tree arrive on at Purdue!…

I have worked in research labs under faculty for five semesters at Purdue. This semester, I work in Shalamar Armstrong’s Soil Ecosystem Nutrient Dynamic (SEND) lab located on the third floor of Lilly. I grind plant samples and measure samples to be analyzed for nutrient content each week. My favorite tasks is diluting solutions to…

We are approaching the end of the fall semester with Thanksgiving around the corner. This semester has flown by as class work left an lasting impact on my academic career. Now having only one semester left leading closer to graduation day,  where I will walk across that stage thinking about all of the memories being…

The growing season of 2024 was very different, going from too much rain in early summer to almost nothing though our months of August and September. Not only did this wild weather pose challenges in our soybean fields, but also in our sweet corn acreage. Starting with our sweet corn acreage, we had struggles of…

ENTM 410 is an elective course offered to Agronomy students. I am currently taking this course to fulfill an agronomy selective this semester. This course provides a great introduction to integrated pest management which involves pest/damage identification, threshold development, control tactics and economic evaluation. It provides a background into the historical origins of pest management,…

This semester I had the opportunity to attend my first SASES conference meeting in San Antonio Texas. If you don’t know what SASES is, it stands for Students in Agronomy, Soils, and Environmental Sciences. At this conference I was able to attend business meetings, compete in contests, and explore the state of Texas. We were…

Second semester of senior year is near, and I cannot believe how quick my time at Purdue has gone. It seems like not too long ago I was navigating chemistry and calculus with all my friends in the dorms, and now I am presenting my senior capstone projects. Throughout my time at Purdue there have…

Choosing a major at Purdue can be a difficult task. When I came into my freshman year I was majoring in Agribusiness, but then changed to Agronomy in the spring. Purdue offers so many majors and career paths that the decision is overwhelming. Why choose Agronomy? This is a major that I feel provides you…

Hello everyone! Over this past summer, I had the opportunity to intern with Laughery Valley Ag in southeast Indiana. During this internship, I was able to do a wide variety of different tasks including working with farmers to help make better management decisions. This may involve scouting some of their fields and determining if the…