Entomology - Dr. Jeff Bradshaw
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Dr. Bradshaw describes his work in the Entomology Department.
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- [00:00:00.323](gentle chiming music)
- [00:00:06.120]I'm Jeff Bradshaw.
- [00:00:07.110]I'm the associate professor of entomology
- [00:00:08.860]at the University of Nebraska Lincoln
- [00:00:10.730]at the Panhandle Research and Extension Center.
- [00:00:13.550]And I'm also an extension specialist in Nebraska Extension.
- [00:00:16.900]I work on a lot of the unique field crops
- [00:00:20.320]that we have in the western end of the state,
- [00:00:22.270]like sunflower and wheat and dry beans and sugar beans.
- [00:00:25.770]So I've been turning over rocks since I was about three.
- [00:00:29.080]I think my great-grandmother said
- [00:00:30.900]that I told her I wanted to be an entomologist
- [00:00:32.970]when I grew up (laughs).
- [00:00:34.100]So I've always just kind of had an interest
- [00:00:36.550]and fascination with insects.
- [00:00:38.200]I guess I just never gave that up.
- [00:00:40.120]Students are the lifeblood of my program.
- [00:00:42.320]They bring a lot of unique perspectives
- [00:00:45.150]and enthusiasm for learning new things
- [00:00:47.890]and enthusiasm for discovery.
- [00:00:50.720]And an opportunity to learn in my program
- [00:00:53.770]about how to do science,
- [00:00:55.310]particularly in the field.
- [00:00:56.830]A lot of the projects we work on,
- [00:00:58.580]we collaborate very closely with our producers.
- [00:01:01.530]In our dry bean projects we do a lot of on-farm work
- [00:01:05.350]with some great collaborators looking at parasitoids
- [00:01:08.650]that were released in the field
- [00:01:09.830]for biological control of our pests.
- [00:01:12.350]So in my program students are learning about field ecology,
- [00:01:16.640]and applied ecology, and really agro-ecosystems
- [00:01:20.150]that are fairly unique on the west end of the state.
- [00:01:23.330]Here students would have experiences
- [00:01:25.900]working with some unique crops.
- [00:01:27.730]We do some pollinator work in sunflowers,
- [00:01:30.530]dry beans, particularly great northern beans,
- [00:01:33.300]and pinto beans are important in this region.
- [00:01:35.770]They'll get experience kind of
- [00:01:37.260]some pretty unique cropping systems approaches
- [00:01:39.940]to how we manage some cases,
- [00:01:42.980]some unique pests to our region.
- [00:01:45.110]I hope in my program that myself and my students
- [00:01:48.620]learn as much from our producers,
- [00:01:50.596]from their experience in growing these commodities
- [00:01:53.760]than they do from us and the research that we're doing.
- [00:01:56.097](gentle chiming music)
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