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Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources

Rural Fellows is accepting 200 students for the 2021 program

$100,000 in grants available for Rural Fellows host communities

November 17, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

Nicole Iverson (center), assistant professor of biological systems engineering at Nebraska, works with then-undergraduate Janelle Adams and graduate student Eric Hofferber in August 2016. The Iverson Lab has earned a $1.77 million grant from the Department of Health and Human Services to make nitric oxide sensors easy to use and to utilize them to study both healthy and diseased cells.

Husker research team earns grant to improve nitric oxide sensors

November 11, 2020

Science & Technology

Steve Spomer, a research technician with the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Department of Entomology, will retire in December after 40 years with the university.

Spomer nets 40-year butterfly and beetle legacy

November 10, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

Extension webinar to focus on livestock risk management

November 3, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

Funds will be available as early as spring 2021 for qualifying landowners to undertake a variety of tree-related management in Nebraska.

Partnership earns $4.3M grant to restore state’s forests

October 13, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

Four in 10 rural Nebraskans surveyed say their economic well-being is dependent on the success of production agriculture, according to the 2020 Nebraska Rural Poll.

Poll: Ag remains a driver of economic well-being for most rural Nebraskans

October 12, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

BYF Garden

Pandemic boosts popularity of gardening, ‘Backyard Farmer’

October 8, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

Kinga Aletto, a junior in College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, holds her life-sized clay model of the Javan blue-banded kingfisher. Creating the model of the critically-endangered bird is part of her UCARE research project.

Husker’s artwork draws attention to kingfisher struggles

October 2, 2020

Course planning will be streamlined for spring semester.

Achievements | Honors, appointments, publications for Oct. 2

October 2, 2020

Ranchers ride on horseback to round up cattle for rotational grazing in June on the Diamond Bar Ranch north of Stapleton. Agriculture remains a critical component of Nebraska’s economy and is a resilient industry, according to a new report by University of Nebraska–Lincoln researchers.

Report: Agriculture critical to Nebraska economy, state’s resilience

October 1, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

Rachel Williss, a junior agricultural and environmental sciences communication major at Nebraska, photographs Robert Diffendal, professor emeritus in the School of Natural Resources, during her fellowship this summer in Pawnee County. The Rural Fellows program is expanding in 2021, with up to 200 students and 100 communities to be accepted.

Rural Fellows accepting 200 students, 100 host communities for 2021

September 24, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

Yeutter Institute provides opportunity after canceled internships

September 21, 2020

Agriculture & Environment