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Melba M. Crawford is the Associate Dean of Engineering for Research and a professor of agronomy, Civil Engineering, and Electrical & Computer Engineering at Purdue University. [1] As the Nancy Uridil and Francis Bossu Professor in Civil Engineering, her specialty is Geomatics Engineering.
Gebisa Ejeta (born 1950 [1]) is an Ethiopian American plant breeder, geneticist and Professor at Purdue University. [2] In 2009, he won the World Food Prize for his major contributions in the production of sorghum .
From 1974 to 1982, he was with the Purdue Agronomy Department as Extension/research specialist in corn production for Indiana. [4] He joined the staff of the Potash & Phosphate Institute (PPI) in 1982 and has been involved with a number of innovative agronomic research and education programs in the Midwest region.
He brought scientists together from the fields of plant pathology, agronomy, and entomology and created an infrastructure for interagency collaboration between Purdue and the USDA. [ 1 ] Caldwell developed disease-resistant cultivars for a wide variety of plants, including small grains, corn, soybeans, tomatoes, and apples.
He attended Ohio State University, graduating with a in Agronomy in 1957 and completed graduate education at Purdue University. [1] [2] He began teaching at Michigan State University in 1961, and joined the Texas A&M University faculty in 1975. [2]
Purdue University is a public land-grant research university in West Lafayette, Indiana, United States, and the flagship campus of the Purdue University system. [7] The university was founded in 1869 after Lafayette businessman John Purdue donated land and money to establish a college of science, technology, and agriculture; [8] the first classes were held on September 16, 1874.
In agronomy, the BBCH-scale for cereals describes the phenological development of cereals using the BBCH-scale.. Critical stages according to BBCH (Lancashire et al., 1991) and their deviations from the Zadok's scale (in brackets).
Contour plowing, Pennsylvania, 1938 "Contour bunding", Catalonia, 2007. Contour plowing or contour farming is the farming practice of plowing and/or planting across a slope following its elevation contour lines.