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A still from a GoPro camera mounted in a helicopter shows a band of pronghorn running across western Nebraska rangeland. Earlier this year, researchers captured 80 pronghorn and placed GPS radio collars on them. The released pronghorn will be tracked over two years to provide fine-scale information about their survival and movement across the Nebraska Panhandle and anywhere else they roam.

Collaborative study tracks pronghorn in Panhandle

April 15, 2021

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Cattle graze on the Diamond Bar Ranch north of Stapleton in June 2020. The Sandhills are threatened by the encroachment of eastern red cedar and other woody species, according to Craig Allen, a professor in Nebraska’s School of Natural Resources.

Center for Resilience in Agricultural Working Landscapes up and running

April 14, 2021

Agriculture & Environment

Annual Nebraska Academy of Sciences meeting opens April 23

April 14, 2021

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

Tala Awada Greenhouse

Plant ecophysiologist talks effect of climate change on Nebraska vegetation

April 5, 2021

Agriculture & Environment

Nebraska’s Harkamal Walia and colleagues have described a novel form of a gene obtained from wild wheat that has the potential to improve drought tolerance in cultivated wheat.

Walia featured today in Nebraska Lecture on climate change, crop yields

April 2, 2021

Agriculture & Environment

Team IDs inflammation-fighting nanoparticles in honey

April 1, 2021

Science & Technology

Six in 10 rural Nebraskans surveyed are using the internet to save money by price matching or bargain hunting, and about one-third are generating income by buying or selling items online, according to the 2018 Nebraska Rural Poll.

Nebraska Rural Poll collaborates to provide statewide survey

April 1, 2021

Agriculture & Environment

A young oil palm plantation in Indonesia. Each plantation cycle is about 25 years long.

Husker research shows palm oil production can grow while protecting ecosystems

March 25, 2021

Agriculture & Environment

Engineered microbe excels at ‘breathing rubber,’ could curb reliance on petroleum

March 18, 2021

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Pablo Loza

Beef feedlot specialist arrives in Scottsbluff from Argentina

March 16, 2021

Agriculture & Environment

The value of agricultural land in Nebraska increased for the second straight year.

Nebraska ag land values increase for second consecutive year

March 15, 2021

Agriculture & Environment