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Aerial photo of bioprocessing facility, surrounded by farm fields, with line of semitrucks exiting

Study shows Nebraska’s ethanol industry continues to expand

July 26, 2022

Candace Hulbert, the Weather Ready Farms VISTA, talks with Julien Hoffman, AmeriCorps VISTA program coordinator with Nebraska Extension, in the Nebraska Student Union

Extension partnering with AmeriCorps VISTA to impact Nebraskans

July 18, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

Soybeans are harvested on a farm near Friend.

Weather Ready Farms program rolling out to Nebraska

May 9, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Riganti talks current drought conditions on RFD-TV

May 9, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

Registration is open for Student Research Days, which is April 11-15.

Student Research Days competition winners announced

May 4, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Kreifels shares Nebraska U's plan to bolster ag education teacher retention

April 25, 2022

“Backyard Farmer,” the longest-running locally produced TV program in the country, celebrates its 70th anniversary this spring. Pictured here during the show’s 1967 season are (from left) Wayne Whitney, extension horticulture specialist; John Wheihing, extension plant pathologist; Dwayne Trenkle (standing), co-host; John Furrer, extension turf and weed specialist; George Round (standing), founder and host; Bob Roselle, extension entomologist; and Cyril Bish, extension educator.

70 years on, ‘Backyard Farmer’ remains hardy perennial in Nebraska life

March 31, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

Aerial shot of farmland

Nebraska ag land values up 16%, according to university-led survey

March 16, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

Katarzyna Glowacka, assistant professor of biochemistry, is using a five-year, nearly $1.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development Program to study how a process called non-photochemical quenching, or NPQ — a plant’s first-line defense against damage to its photosynthetic machinery — plays a role in enabling miscanthus to fend off cold-induced damage.

Glowacka’s research aims to enhance crops’ tolerance to the cold

March 14, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Rajib Saha, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, and graduate student Niaz Bahar Chowdhury have created a genome-scale metabolic model for the corn root to study its nitrogen-use efficiency under nitrogen stress conditions.

Researchers study corn root growth under nitrogen-poor conditions

March 14, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

A research paper by Trenton Franz, associate professor of hydrogeophysics at Nebraska, and co-authors points to an innovative irrigation approach that could decrease water use while increasing producer profitability.

Husker researchers develop tool to make irrigation more efficient

March 8, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

Irrigation Drip System

Study shows economic impact of the irrigation equipment and services industry

February 28, 2022