Panhandle Perspectives:

The commitment of generations of dedicated soil scientists in maintaining and managing the historic Knorr-Holden Plot near Scottsbluff for more than a century came to fruition in a recently published manuscript in Agronomy Journal.

The lead author of the manuscript, Bijesh Maharjan, is an assistant professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) Department of Agronomy and Horticulture and currently manages the Knorr-Holden Plot.

He is the soil and nutrient management specialist at the Panhandle Research and Extension Center at Scottsbluff.

The history of the Knorr-Holden Plot goes back t...