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National Drought Mitigation Center

Riganti talks current drought conditions on RFD-TV

May 9, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

Irrigation Drip System

Study shows economic impact of the irrigation equipment and services industry

February 28, 2022

Students enjoy the warm temps on East Campus.

No snow days: Mild, drier weather expected to continue

February 21, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

The journal Rangeland and Ecological Management recently published an article detailing the results of a survey of western South Dakota ranchers who endured a 2016 flash drought that significantly altered forage production in the area.

Study: Ranchers with drought plans make some pivotal moves sooner

January 5, 2021

Agriculture & Environment

U.S. Drought Monitor

National Drought Mitigation Center enters into three-year USDA agreement

December 16, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

Model could inform predictions of West Nile risk

November 5, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Each Monday, National Drought Mitigation Center assistant director Kelly Helm Smith emails a map of the past week’s #drought tweets to a listserv of drought experts and state climatologists.

Pilot system monitors tweets for drought early warning

November 5, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

Andy Benson, director of the Nebraska Food for Health Center, discusses the medical benefits of food to U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue during a tour of Nebraska Innovation Campus on Sept. 4.

Perdue says innovation, collaboration key to agriculture’s future

September 4, 2020

Submissions like this one to the Visual Drought Atlas help show different landscapes over time, in dry, wet and normal years.

Photo submissions sought for Visual Drought Atlas

July 1, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

Information from the NASA GRACE-FO satellites is being used to produce and share first-of-their-kind global maps of topsoil, root zone soil and groundwater moisture, as well as 30-, 60- and 90-day forecasts of wet and dry conditions across the continental United States, thanks to a collaboration with the Center for Advanced Land Management Information Technologies and National Drought Mitigation Center.

Drought center, CALMIT help launch drought-monitoring, forecast tools

April 2, 2020

Husker who coined 'flash drought' helps define emerging phenomenon

March 11, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

A citizen scientist submitted this photo of Perch Lake in Woodside Township, Polk County, Minnesota, looking south. “It has been a cool summer with normal to slightly above normal precipitation here,” the observer wrote.

Citizen scientists encouraged to take landscape photos Feb. 15-17

February 10, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology