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Close-up of rice plants

Study: Southeast Asia must close yield gap to remain major rice bowl

March 30, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

A Lynch resident buys groceries at Valley Foods Cooperative.

A community of cooperation: Lynch opens cooperative grocery store

March 23, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

Herbie and Lil' Red

Achievements | Honors, appointments, publications for March 18

March 18, 2022

Aerial shot of farmland

Nebraska ag land values up 16%, according to university-led survey

March 16, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

Katarzyna Glowacka, assistant professor of biochemistry, is using a five-year, nearly $1.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development Program to study how a process called non-photochemical quenching, or NPQ — a plant’s first-line defense against damage to its photosynthetic machinery — plays a role in enabling miscanthus to fend off cold-induced damage.

Glowacka’s research aims to enhance crops’ tolerance to the cold

March 14, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Patricio Grassini

Grassini is partner in project to optimize crop placement in sub-Saharan Africa

March 9, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

Daniela Manhani Mattos teaches agricultural economics on East Campus.

Manhani Mattos advises students in community development

March 9, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

A research paper by Trenton Franz, associate professor of hydrogeophysics at Nebraska, and co-authors points to an innovative irrigation approach that could decrease water use while increasing producer profitability.

Husker researchers develop tool to make irrigation more efficient

March 8, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

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

Steven Thomas, a professor of river and stream ecology at UNL, was part of an international, interdisciplinary research team that spent four years working to understand how strategic planning can reduce the impact of hydropower development on the entire Amazon River basin. That reseach is the basis of a new article in Science. Thomas took this photo of Alex Flecker, left, and Suresh Suthi, both of Cornell University, on a visit to South America during the course of the research. Flecker, Suthi

Husker researcher plays key role in Amazon basin project

March 2, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Members of the Husker Venture Fund awarded the first investment of $25,000 to Jackson Stansell, a biological systems engineering doctoral student at Nebraska. The HVF is a student-led venture capital fund that invests in Nebraska-owned early-stage startups. Pictured from left are students and managing directors of the fund Keith Nordling, Adam Folsom and Emily Kist, alongside Stansell.

Student's fertigation startup awarded first Husker Venture Fund investment

February 25, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Tilden residents discuss their community’s strengths and shortcomings during their inaugural Entrepreneurial Communities Activation Process meeting.

ECAP program helps Nebraskans create communities they want

February 23, 2022