Agronomy Ambassador Blog

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…

Time at school always seems to fly by. I think the weather has thrown me off this fall, blinding me to the fact that it’s the middle of November with weather in the 60s and 70s recently. Now that we enter the last few weeks of the fall semester, it is important to stay disciplined…

Recently a group of us from the Agronomy Club traveled to San Antonio Texas for the National SASES meeting. This meeting takes place at the same time as the Tri-societies conference takes place. The Tri-societies is a professional organization that includes soils, crops, and environmental science. SASES is just the undergrad version of this. There…

Being a part of the Purdue Soils Judging Team has been one of my favorite activities that I have done during my time at Purdue. I have been on the team for the past 3.5 years and have competed in different contests in multiple areas across the state. This semester our team traveled to Carbondale,…

Over fall break I traveled with the soils judging team to Carbondale, Illinois for the regional contest! Soils judging has become one of my favorite activities in college, but I had no idea what it was before meeting with my agronomy advisor for the first time. She recommended it to me, and I signed up…