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A vendors sells produce at the Fallbrook Farmers Market in northwest Lincoln on July 23. A new $1 million, three-year grant will allow Nebraska Extension to expand the Double Up Food Bucks program to more grocery stores and farmers markets across the state.

Grant expands Nebraska SNAP recipients’ access to fresh produce

December 1, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

Extension webinar to focus on livestock risk management

November 3, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

University of Nebraska–Lincoln researchers are using collars fitted with GPS and accelerometers to track the movements and behavioral patterns of beef cattle and how they link to efficient beef production systems.

Husker researchers linking cattle behavior to efficient beef production

September 16, 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

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

Sonny Perdue

U.S. agriculture secretary to visit campus Sept. 4

September 1, 2020

Husker project aiming to reduce atrazine use gets Nebraska Environmental Trust grant

August 21, 2020

Husker team receives $1 million for projects to enhance soil health, productivity

July 23, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

Joe Louis

Louis receives grant to research sorghum’s resistance to fall armyworm

July 15, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Cutline: Nebraska’s Daniel Ciobanu (left) and Hiep Vu have received $1 million in grant funding to continue research that could lead to the development of vaccines and genetic-selection tools to fight some of the world’s costliest swine diseases.

Nebraska duo eyes end to costly swine diseases

May 28, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

Hand sanitizer is mixed and loaded into jugs inside a fenced-off section of the Food Innovation Center parking lot. More than 6,800 gallons of the hand sanitizer has been shipped to the USDA for use by food safety inspectors.

USDA meatpacking inspectors receive hand sanitizer made at Nebraska U

May 20, 2020

Brian Fuchs, a climatologist with the National Drought Mitigation Center, said support from the USDA adds flexibility for researchers to explore and respond to more nuanced drought-mitigation challenges.

Drought Mitigation Center continues to develop, expand tools

January 22, 2020

Agriculture & Environment