News from PSM participation in ASA, CSSA, & SSSA Meeting 2023 St Louis MO

November 03, 2023

PSM students are the big winners at this year's ASA, CSSA, & SSSA Meeting in St Louis MO.

Jackie Lyn Guevara, PhD student, placed first in achieved the highest total score across all turfgrass sessions and is first choice to represent C5 in the Society competition

News from PSM participation in ASA, CSSA, & SSSA Meeting 2023 St Louis MO

Good news from many sources for PSM

C5 - Turfgrass Division oral presentation competition winners:

Turfgrass Science Session

Jackie Guevara Grad student: 1^st place oral presentaion "Evaluating Kentucky Bluegrass and prennial seeding ratios for sod grown on plastic production." Jackie also scored the highest total across all turfgrass sessions and is first choice to represent C5 in the Society competition
Ryan Bearss: 2^nd place oral presentation "Growth and rooting characteristics of Kentucky bluegrass sod harvested from various production systems."

Turfgrass Water Conservation Session

Mike Rabe Grad student and assistant farm manager took 3^rd place for his oral presentation: "Hydroponic system rootzones for sustainable putting green management

2023 Chris Stiegler Turf Science Student Travel Award and Fellowship awardees from Michigan State University:

Payton Perkinson (MS student awardee)
Jackie Lyn Guevara (PhD student awardee)

In Dr Wessel's lab: Bernard Frantz placed 3rd with his pedology poster "Michigan Marl provides a source of agricultural lime which is almost unlimited"

In Dr Singh's lab,

Harikat Kaur. 2nd place, Poster and 5-minute rapid competition (Ph.D. students) of C-3 division (Crop Ecology, Management, and Quality) of CSSA. “Unravelling the mycotoxins issue in silage corn and contributing environmental and agronomic factors”. 2023 Annual International Meeting of the ASA, CSSA, & SSSA, St. Louis, MO. https://scisoc.confex.com/scisoc/2023am/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/149531
Benjamin Agyei. 3rd place, Poster and 5-minute rapid competition (Ph.D. students) of C-3 division (Crop Ecology, Management, and Quality) of CSSA. “Planting date and hybrid selection decisions for optimizing corn yield and kernel drydown”. 2023 Annual International Meeting of the ASA, CSSA, & SSSA, St. Louis, MO. https://scisoc.confex.com/scisoc/2023am/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/149950

In Dr. Steinke's lab

Lane Suplito. 2nd place, Poster and 5-minute rapid competition (M.Sc. students) of SSSA Division: Soil Fertility and Plant Nutrition. “Integrating Autumn Starter Fertilizer, Fungicide Timing, and Late-Season Nitrogen Strategies in Winter Wheat"

And this year, representing CSS undergraduates and the Agronomy Club,

MSU Scored second place in the SASES Tri Societies Undergraduate program in the national competition. Kate Voisinet, Trey Ellens and Emma Woller presented the MSU Agronomy Club's "Pre-Career Fair Mixer" poster. NOTE FROM AGRONOMY CLUB: WE WANT TO THANK The event, and the club's travel, would not have been possible without: @canratmsu Alumni Association, @nutrienmichigan, @wilburellisag, Gold Coast Sales, @corteva, Michigan Agricultural Commodities, @caledonia.farmers.elevator, B&M Crop Consulting, Inc, @syngentaus, Jorgensen Farm Elevator, @sotwmilling, @agroliquidresearch, @bayer4cropsus, @kellerfarmssupply, & @beckshybrids

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