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National Institute of Food and Agriculture

Close-up of wheat plants with binary code streaming onto them.

University to host national conference on ag data network creation

August 1, 2024

Agriculture & Environment

Paul Kononoff hooks up Lila, a 10-month old jersey cow, in a portable booth, where her breath will be measured and sampled.

Husker team receives $5M grant to reduce methane emissions from cattle

December 18, 2023

Agriculture & Environment

Shuai Nie and Yijie Xiong

Interdisciplinary team bringing wireless connectivity to Nebraska farmers

November 3, 2023

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Husker scientists Hiep Vu and Sarah Sillman stand in a shadowy room, with a microscope in the foreground.

Husker scientists’ research project aims to crack code of major swine virus

August 16, 2023

Agriculture & Environment

The expert panel during the May 10 Heuermann Lecture consisted of (from left) Graham Plastow, Cynthia Parr, Amy Winstead, Tom Eikhoff and Ben Craker. Mike Boehm (right), NU vice president for agriculture and natural resources and Harlan Vice Chancellor for the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources, moderated.

Heuermann Lecture focuses on complexities of reporting ag data

May 11, 2023

Agriculture & Environment

(From left) Francisco Muñoz-Arriola, Justin Bradley, Carrick Detweiler, Brittany Duncan and Trenton Franz pose among unmanned aerial vehicles at the NIMBUS outdoor flying area on Nebraska Innovation Campus.

NIMBUS receives $2M to advance robotics’ role in climate change research

March 27, 2023

Science & Technology

Janos Zempleni in his lab

Husker research delves into breast milk consumption, brain development

February 3, 2023

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

A man looks through the front windshield of a combine while harvesting corn at night.

Husker faculty take lead role in creating national ag data network

October 13, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

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Sierra Conway uses a punch to collect samples from the leaves of several corn plants in each plot at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s research fields at 84th and Havelock in July 2020. Nebraska is one of three universities taking lead roles in the multi-institutional Agriculture Genome to Phenome Initiative, which recently received a third round of funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture.

USDA funds $1.9M of next stage in genome-to-phenome collaboration

September 29, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

(From left) Nebraska’s Scott Sattler, Tomas Helikar and Joe Louis stand among sorghum plants.

Husker team leads effort to help sorghum defend itself from aphid attacks

June 21, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Scott McVey and Hiep Vu stand in a lab

Vu to lead research project in fight against African swine fever

June 20, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

The meat processing industry experienced major disruptions as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Agricultural economics Professor Azzeddine Azzam has received funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture to study the impact of the pandemic on meat processors and the resilience of the industry as a whole.

USDA grant to fund far-ranging study of meatpacking resilience

April 5, 2022