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Agronomy and Horticulture

Nebraska high school students and their families listen to Stacy Adams, The Biggest Grower program coordinator, speak about speciality crop production near the East Campus Hops Planting Garden on June 30. Lana Koepke Johnson | Agronomy and Horticulture

‘Biggest Growers’ tour East Campus, learn about agronomy, horticulture, landscape design

August 3, 2021

Agriculture & Environment

Sierra Conway, an undergraduate student at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, collects RNA from a set of diverse corn varieties that her research team is growing and studying at the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture research fields in Lincoln. Conway is part of James Schnable’s research group at Nebraska, which is partnering with Iowa State University and six other institutions to launch the AI Institute for Resilient Agriculture.

Husker researcher part of multi-university effort to improve ag decision-making

July 29, 2021

Agriculture & Environment

Hybrid crop breeding workshop begins Aug. 10

July 1, 2021

UNL's ROTC combined color guard stands at attention with flags in hand during commencement exercises in Memorial Stadium on May 8.

Achievements | Honors, appointments, publications for May 21

May 21, 2021

Sorghum

Team IDs key to sorghum’s heat resilience, aims to boost corn’s tolerance

May 20, 2021

Agriculture & Environment

Charles Wortmann

Wortmann retires after decades of work in sub-Saharan Africa and Nebraska

May 7, 2021

P. Stephen Baenziger will retire May 3 after 35 years of service to the university. Lana Koepke Johnson | Agronomy and Horticulture

Baenziger to retire, capping 35-year career at Nebraska

April 12, 2021

Nebraska’s Harkamal Walia and colleagues have described a novel form of a gene obtained from wild wheat that has the potential to improve drought tolerance in cultivated wheat.

Walia featured today in Nebraska Lecture on climate change, crop yields

April 2, 2021

Agriculture & Environment

Report features Grassini's palm oil research

April 2, 2021

Agriculture & Environment

A young oil palm plantation in Indonesia. Each plantation cycle is about 25 years long.

Husker research shows palm oil production can grow while protecting ecosystems

March 25, 2021

Agriculture & Environment

Applications being accepted for faculty leadership program

Achievements | Honors, appointments, publications for March 12

March 12, 2021

Model predicts gene responses to cold across diverse plant species

March 5, 2021

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology