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Kreifels shares Nebraska U's plan to bolster ag education teacher retention

April 25, 2022

“Backyard Farmer,” the longest-running locally produced TV program in the country, celebrates its 70th anniversary this spring. Pictured here during the show’s 1967 season are (from left) Wayne Whitney, extension horticulture specialist; John Wheihing, extension plant pathologist; Dwayne Trenkle (standing), co-host; John Furrer, extension turf and weed specialist; George Round (standing), founder and host; Bob Roselle, extension entomologist; and Cyril Bish, extension educator.

70 years on, ‘Backyard Farmer’ remains hardy perennial in Nebraska life

March 31, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

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

Rajib Saha, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, and graduate student Niaz Bahar Chowdhury have created a genome-scale metabolic model for the corn root to study its nitrogen-use efficiency under nitrogen stress conditions.

Researchers study corn root growth under nitrogen-poor conditions

March 14, 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

Irrigation Drip System

Study shows economic impact of the irrigation equipment and services industry

February 28, 2022

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Go big infrared: Husker imaging system streamlines analysis of seeds

February 3, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Chancellor Ronnie Green talks about the university’s legacy of being a land-grant institution on land first settled by indigenous peoples as part of an Oct. 11 dedication of a sculpture of Dr. LaFlesche Picotte. Green has been appointed to a blue ribbon panel to investigate how land-grant institutions can help U.S. agriculture overcome new competitive challenges.

Green named to national panel on land grants and ag

December 13, 2021

Agriculture & Environment

Irrigation in corn field

Without a trace? Adding mineral to irrigation may lower toxic elements in soils

November 24, 2021

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Supply chain crunches affecting agriculture — from farm to table

October 25, 2021

Agriculture & Environment

4 students standing on a hill overlooking a beef cattle operation.

Students develop biosecurity plans for Nebraska cattle producers

October 22, 2021

Agriculture & Environment