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Cohort 2023 Slideshow

on August 09, 2023

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Week One with Extension by Ellie Rogers

Image: ATV Operation- (Learning how to drive an ATV and calibrate the boom and sprayers as practice before an herbicide application the following week as a practice trial to remove preexisting weeds in a plot designated for sunflower plantings.) I have always had a passion for nature and food. As an environmental science major and soil science minor at the University of Maryland, this is evident in what I choose to divert my undergraduate studies towards. Growing up in suburbia, however, has limited my knowledge of food production and the environment largely to what I was able to learn in the classroom and my own passion projects.Working with Dr. Kurt Vollmer at the Wye Research and Extension Center in his research regarding weeds systems and herbicide functionality has begun to broaden my limited scope of knowledge and expand my biased understanding of agriculture. My understanding of the UME program as a whole has largely been confined to the few bulletins and extension article...

Week Two with Extension by Ellie Rogers

Image: Herbicide damage - (The bleaching shown on the grass in the picture above is evidence of herbicide damage surrounding a nearby field of corn located on the Wye property to prevent interspecies competition and lower overall crop yield.) At the beginning of any new endeavor there is almost always a ‘fish out of water’ experience. This is inevitable, being thrust out of one’s comfort zone into the unknown and uncharted. Working with extension under the guidance of Dr. Kurt Vollmer at the Wye has been a wonderful experience in my short time there so far, however, that feeling of uncertainty has remained. Although what I have learned, both at UMD and on my own, about agriculture has been supportive of what I am learning here at the Wye, Organic Chemistry can only help so much when learning the practicalities of extension. In University, at the beginning of each course taken there is always the promise of connecting the topics so dutifully learned in class with the potential to inter...

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