Decatur students participate in Agricultural Sustainabiliity Field Day

Decatur students Nicole Buckmaster, Josh Hare, Lensey Watson and Sean Wilson identified soil horizons during one of the handson sessions on Wednesday at the University of Arkansas Agricultural Research Station in Fayetteville.
Decatur students Nicole Buckmaster, Josh Hare, Lensey Watson and Sean Wilson identified soil horizons during one of the handson sessions on Wednesday at the University of Arkansas Agricultural Research Station in Fayetteville.

— Fourteen students from Decatur High School joined teens from three other schools last Wednesday for the Agricultural Sustainability Field Day hosted by the Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences Department at the U of A Agricultural Research Station in Fayetteville.

Students from Fayetteville, Bentonville and Prairie Grove also participated in the event.

They visited research plots on the university’s Division of Agriculture Research and Extension Center.

Faculty members and graduate students in the Department of Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences showed off their research projects. The students rotated in 15-minute sessions through different research projects such as soybean breeding and genetics, water conservation in crop production, soil physics, greenhouse gas emissions, bioenergy crop production, riparian stream restoration, and water quality.

Students also attended handson sessions including soil classification, bioenergy crop production, soybean research, sustainable nitrogen production, water conservation, and water quality.

Sports, Pages 11 on 09/29/2010