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A young man stands behind a table stacked with vegetables.

Rural Prosperity Nebraska receives $25M USDA award for Regional Food Center

May 3, 2023

Agriculture & Environment

Photo composite featuring supercomputers lit red on the left and combines harvesting wheat on the right.

University to host May 10-12 conference on creating national ag data network

April 27, 2023

Agriculture & Environment

The eight fellows with the Scientific Exchanges Program who have studied with IANR faculty are (from left) Florence Munguti, Charles Mgeni, Zena Mchomvu, Luitfrid Nnally, Betty Waized, Fatiha Bentata, Intissar Zarrouk and Wilton Mbinda.

African fellows work with IANR faculty to tackle plant health, international trade

November 17, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

Matt Hille (left) and Dustin Loy look over a culture of Moraxella bovis in the Veterinary Diagnostic Center lab. M. bovis is the primary bacterium that causes bovine pinkeye. Hille and Loy, scientists in the School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, have published significant journal articles about the disease this year.

Husker scientists add to university’s long history of bovine pinkeye study

November 3, 2022

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Matt Hille (left) and Dustin Loy look over a culture of Moraxella bovis in the Veterinary Diagnostic Center lab. M. bovis is the primary bacterium that causes bovine pinkeye. Hille and Loy, scientists in the School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, have published significant journal articles about the disease this year.

Husker scientists add to university’s long history of bovine pinkeye study

November 3, 2022

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

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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

Vertically stacked rows of leafy green plants growing in cylindrical containers

Omaha Tribe receives $671K grant for hydroponic farming

July 27, 2022

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(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

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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

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Science & Technology

Calvin Schrock, research manager in animal science, cuts a pork carcass in May 2020. The University of Nebraska–Lincoln has announced plans to develop the Small Meat Processing Plant of the Future to address workforce shortages and other challenges faced by small meat processors.

Animal Science to develop small meat processing plant

March 4, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

High school student Holly Podliska (center) and Husker undergraduates Daniel Ngu (left) and Conner Pederson (right) gather maize root microbiome samples in 2017. The University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s new Research and Extension Experiences for Undergraduates program will give students 10-week summer research experiences and scientific communication and leadership training.

Grant will fund ‘Crop-to-Food Innovation’ undergraduate training program

February 18, 2022