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Andy Benson, director of the Nebraska Food for Health Center, discusses the medical benefits of food to U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue during a tour of Nebraska Innovation Campus on Sept. 4.

Perdue says innovation, collaboration key to agriculture’s future

September 4, 2020

Nebraska’s Yufeng Ge has received a $3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture to lead a team of researchers from three universities in expanding and standardizing plant phenotyping.

Husker-led project to advance, standardize field of phenotyping

September 3, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

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.

NU affirms commitment to rural success with Rural Prosperity Nebraska

August 20, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

Nebraska among world's best universities for ag, forestry

July 28, 2020

Alyvea Groteluschen of Columbus eyes the judge during the junior showmanship sheep competition July 10 at the Platte County Fair in Columbus. For livestock shows, fair officials adopted a show-and-go format, in which youth checked their animals in, showed them and took them back home all in the same day. Participants were required to wear a mask in the show ring.

Fair organizers get creative to keep opportunities alive for 4-H, FFA youth

July 16, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

Joe Louis

Louis receives grant to research sorghum’s resistance to fall armyworm

July 15, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

P. Stephen Baenziger

Baenziger awarded $650,000 for hybrid wheat research

July 1, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

Chuck Hibberd

Nebraska Extension dean and director announces retirement

June 30, 2020

Pork donation processing

Producers, university, food banks partner to put pork on the table

June 4, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

New report explores Nebraskans’ views on foreign affairs

May 21, 2020

Nebraska Extension is working to provide resources for rural Nebraskans struggling with mental health issues.

Extension works to provide mental health resources to rural Nebraskans

April 15, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

Fifty-six percent of respondents to the 2019 Nebraska Rural Poll believe they are better off than they were five years ago, up from 52% last year.

Rural Poll has given a voice to rural Nebraskans for 25 years

April 3, 2020

Agriculture & Environment