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Paul Kononoff hooks up Lila, a 10-month old jersey cow, in a portable booth, where her breath will be measured and sampled.

Husker team receives $5M grant to reduce methane emissions from cattle

December 18, 2023

Agriculture & Environment

Aerial rendering of the $160 million USDA laboratory building and greenhouse facility that will be built at Nebraska Innovation Campus. Work is scheduled to begin in 2024.

Journal Star highlights progress on USDA lab at NIC

November 28, 2023

Agriculture & Environment

Shuai Nie and Yijie Xiong

Interdisciplinary team bringing wireless connectivity to Nebraska farmers

November 3, 2023

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Two Wahoo Public Schools students join Josh Synder, director of learning for the school district, and Sarah Buckley, sustainable landscape coordinator for the Nebraska Statewide Arboretum, in planting trees on the grounds of Wahoo High School.

Nebraska Statewide Arboretum receives $10M to boost urban trees

September 20, 2023

Agriculture & Environment

Husker scientists Hiep Vu and Sarah Sillman stand in a shadowy room, with a microscope in the foreground.

Husker scientists’ research project aims to crack code of major swine virus

August 16, 2023

Agriculture & Environment

Two food scientists, a man and a woman, make sausage.

NCTA, UNL collaborate with meat processing industry to boost training

July 12, 2023

Agriculture & Environment

Two trays of wheat samples in a greenhouse. At left are non-inoculated control plants. At right is a soil mix inoculated with isolates of the Fusarium fungus.

Morocco collaboration to boost wheat research, grad study opportunities

June 20, 2023

Agriculture & Environment

Thirteen people pose for a photograph in two rows, in front of a Husker "N" backdrop.

USDA official visits university to discuss $25M grant for Rural Prosperity Nebraska

May 24, 2023

Agriculture & Environment

Brian Vander Ley, associate professor in the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, works with Ginger, a Gir cow gene-edited with resistance to bovine viral diarrhea virus.

Gene-edited calf may reduce reliance on antimicrobials against cattle disease

May 15, 2023

The expert panel during the May 10 Heuermann Lecture consisted of (from left) Graham Plastow, Cynthia Parr, Amy Winstead, Tom Eikhoff and Ben Craker. Mike Boehm (right), NU vice president for agriculture and natural resources and Harlan Vice Chancellor for the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources, moderated.

Heuermann Lecture focuses on complexities of reporting ag data

May 11, 2023

Agriculture & Environment

A young man stands behind a table stacked with vegetables.

Rural Prosperity Nebraska receives $25M USDA award for Regional Food Center

May 3, 2023

Agriculture & Environment

Photo composite featuring supercomputers lit red on the left and combines harvesting wheat on the right.

University to host May 10-12 conference on creating national ag data network

April 27, 2023

Agriculture & Environment