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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

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

Science & Technology

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

Sheep grazing in a field

Husker researcher building database to help farmers breed hardier sheep

February 16, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

The University of Nebraska–Lincoln and three partner institutions have received nearly $1 million to expand the Agricultural Genome to Phenome Initiative.

$960K USDA grant to advance research on crop, livestock traits

June 23, 2021

Agriculture & Environment

Santosh Pitla, associate professor of biological systems engineering at Nebraska, and his team are working on a new approach for refilling Unmanned Ground Vehicle seed tanks using aerial robots.

USDA-NIFA grant to advance ag robot research

April 13, 2021

Agriculture & Environment

Ge's plant genetics research featured on RFD-TV

March 15, 2021

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Nebraska’s Yufeng Ge has received a $3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture to lead a team of researchers from three universities in expanding and standardizing plant phenotyping.

Husker-led project to advance, standardize field of phenotyping

September 3, 2020

Agriculture & Environment