Nathan MuellerPhD, CCA

Nathan Mueller, Nebraska Extension Water & Integrated Cropping Systems Educator, serves Saline, Jefferson, and Gage counties in southeast Nebraska. After growing up on the family dairy farm near Fremont, Nebraska, he earned a bachelor’s and master’s degree in agronomy from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. After that, he worked for the Indiana State Department of Agriculture – Soil Conservation Division for two years while his wife attended Purdue University. He moved to Manhattan, KS where he worked on a PhD at Kansas State University in the Department of Agronomy. His doctoral research was on the nitrogen use of winter annual weeds in no-till corn systems and liquid starter and foliar micronutrient fertilizers for high yield irrigated corn and soybeans. Prior to moving back to Nebraska, he was an assistant professor and the East River Extension Agronomist for South Dakota State University from 2012-2014. Nathan is a Certified Crop Adviser in Nebraska and serves as a local extension specialist for winter wheat production in eastern Nebraska.