Current Students and Staff

Milos Zaric

Milos Zaric

Assistant Professor, Weed Science
Contact: (308) 696-6715
mzaric2@unl.edu

Born and raised in Sevojno, the small town placed in the West part of Serbia. After my high school and my wish to know more about agronomical problems that farmers in Serbia are facing and to provide them with the potential solution for issues I decided to go more toward Agronomy. Following that I moved to Belgrade where I started my academic carrier at The University of Belgrade – Faculty of Agriculture from where I graduated with my B.S. and M.S degree in 2016 and 2017, respectively. Both programs that I pursued were with focus on the plant protection, with minor in weed science, module also known as Phytomedicine. Furthermore, during my Basic academic studies, I got an opportunity to visit Nebraska and to work on an internship during 2015 with Dr. Kruger. Upon completed internship, I got an opportunity to come back again to Nebraska to pursue an M.S. degree in weed science with focuses also in the pesticide application technology. Considering the importance of the pesticide application I saw this as a good opportunity to learn and improve understanding of various things related to this part. My primary research interest here is to better understand the effect of sub-lethal doses of a new formulation of dicamba achieved through simulated tank contamination when applied with different postemergence herbicide program on non-dicamba-tolerant soybean variety. I hope that studies that I am working on will provide results that will help to understand current issues that the American farmers are facing.

Randy Lloyd

Randy Lloyd

Research Facility Coordinator
randy.lloyd@unl.edu
(308) 532-3260

I grew up in a small agricultural community in the Texas panhandle.  My family had a dryland/irrigated farm between Hereford and Adrian, Texas where we grew wheat, grain sorghum, corn and sugar beets.  I went to Texas Tech University where I earned a B.S. in entomology, a M.S. in plant physiology and a Ph.D. in Weed Science.  I worked as a Research Associate at the Texas A&M Experiment Station in Lubbock with Dr. John Abernathy and Dr. Wayne Keeling in the weed science group.

I joined American Cyanamid as a Research Biologist in their Discovery Labs in Princeton New Jersey troubleshooting new products and formulations for weed control.  I also worked in Product Development focused on a baculovirus for control of Gypsy Moth in the Northeastern United States.  I eventually moved to the Midwest as a Technical Service Rep in Kansas, Missouri and Illinois working with growers and dealers on weed control and application technology in corn and soybeans.  I moved back to the east coast when BASF purchased American Cyanamid and became the Technical Marketing Manager for the Southwestern United States working in cotton, rice, peanuts and sugar cane.  After working as the Technical Training Manager for the U.S. sales team at BASF, I moved to the Midwest and worked as a Field Agronomist for Pioneer Hi-Bred in west central Nebraska in North Platte.  I eventually took a position with Dekalb/Asgrow as a Technical Agronomist and worked a 30 county territory helping our sales team to place hybrids and troubleshoot product issues.  In November of 2021, I joined the team at the West Central Research, Extension and Education Center; University of Nebraska as the Research Facility Coordinator and will be focused on the Pesticide Application Technology Lab, the Agroecosystems Entomology Lab and , of course, our producers in west central Nebraska.

Jeff Golus

Jeff Golus

Research Manager Plant Science
jeff.golus@unl.edu
(308) 696-6725

Role is to manage field trials relating to crop water use, crop rotation, hybrid/variety evaluations, fertilizer, rainfed and irrigated cropping systems.

Received a BS degree from UNL in 1995 and started working for Bob Klein at West Central in early 1996, mainly focused on crop variety testing (irrigated and rainfed corn, soybeans, winter wheat, sunflowers, grain sorghum, dry edible beans) throughout southwest Nebraska. The program expanded in the areas of herbicide and adjuvant efficacy, spray nozzle evaluation for drift management and herbicide efficacy and spray droplet analysis with a laser diffraction system. With continued growth in both areas (crop field trials and spray application) in 2012 I became more focused on field trials, predominantly at North Platte and Brule locations.








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