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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

Grant to help corn, wheat growers manage nitrogen fertilizer application

January 21, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

Researchers with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will use the Arable Mark IOT device to record 40 variables in Nebraska farm fields as part of a research effort to improve data farmers use to determine whether they should irrigate.

Researchers to tackle irrigation decision-making via USDA grant

November 4, 2019

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

Mindy Brashears

USDA deputy under secretary to discuss food safety

April 10, 2019

Stephen Censky

Deputy secretary of ag to deliver Heuermann Lecture

February 8, 2019

Agriculture & Environment

Scott Hutchins

Entomologist with Nebraska ties tapped for USDA science post

July 25, 2018

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

Nebraska's Dipti Dev received an Early Career Achievement Award from the USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture.

Dev receives early career honor from USDA affiliate

March 29, 2018

Society & Culture

A Nebraska researcher transfers E.coli from gar plates growing cultures for analysis. A seven-year, Nebraska-led research project is being awarded for its work to reduce food-borne illness caused by Shiga Toxin-producing E. coli.

Husker-led E. coli research wins USDA award

October 11, 2017

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.

E. coli project generates new detection, control methods

January 5, 2017

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

IANR faculty pose with the seven Indonesian fellows that participated in the Cochran Fellowship Program. The group is on campus from Aug. 1-12.

IANR hosts USDA fellows from Indonesia

August 12, 2016