2017 Planting

As of May 16, we’ve planted all of our fields for 2017. Despite several equipment malfunctions our new planter got the job done.










2016 Field Crew

Left to right: Kate, Alex, Tim. We set our alarms and got out to the field bright and early this summer to get science done.










Experimental Evolution

This is generation 0 of our experimental evolution study. We are performing selection for tall and short plants in four replicated populations (two in each direction). Selection is being performed on a “Shoepeg” maize landrace collected from Southern Missouri in the 1960’s.













Ancient Planter

This is the ancient planter we used to plant our experimental evolution populations. It’s probably older than the Shoepeg landrace we’re studying!















Rolling fields

Gorgeous maize fields spotted while biking in Southwest Wisconsin.