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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

Grant to help corn, wheat growers manage nitrogen fertilizer application

January 21, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

Chuck Hibberd (left), dean and director of Nebraska Extension, poses with J. Scott Angle, director of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, during the NIFA Hall of Fame ceremony April 25 in Washington, D.C.

Hibberd inducted into NIFA Hall of Fame

April 29, 2019

Agriculture & Environment

Kenda Jackson examines blood agar plates in studies that tested the effect of certain antibiotics on detection of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli bacteria in cattle. Jackson recently graduated from Tuskegee University in Alabama. She was an intern in the Nebraska laboratory of Rodney A. Moxley as part of a USDA Coordinated Agricultural Project grant investigating harmful E. coli strains.

University joins national ag research initiative

April 18, 2018

Agriculture & Environment

UNL helps launch website about climate change impacts on livestock

October 16, 2014

Vilsack: Rural U.S. has much to gain, must tell story better

October 1, 2013