Tag: Agriculture

Increasing the number of external honorific awards is one of UNL’s strategic goals. The following list includes selected awards and accomplishments that Husker researchers earned in fiscal year 2025.

A new ag tech startup aims to ensure healthier swine herds in Nebraska and beyond, key to an industry that generates more than $60 billion annually. DARO, housed at Nebraska Innovation Campus, provides noninvasive, whole-herd disease surveillance with molecular analysis tools.

Nearly one in eight Nebraskans are unable to easily access healthy food, and the problem is especially acute in rural areas. Husker irrigation engineer Saleh Taghvaeian is supporting food production and local economies by researching how micro-irrigation systems can boost smaller-scale agriculture.

Nebraska is leading a national effort to assess the health risks posed by antimicrobial-resistant pathogens in the environment. The study is one of the first to use field data to gauge the level of risk posed by activities like swimming and fishing in waters contaminated by resistant bacteria.

Accurate estimates of crop yield potential and gaps are key in planning how to meet growing food demand globally. Nebraska agronomists significantly contributed to an international study that demonstrates longstanding statistical methods are insufficient.