PROJECTS & PROGRAMS

Collaborating Against Cyberattacks

Researchers work to prevent cyberattacks on agriculture machinery and technology. Team members from UNL and University of Nebraska at Omaha campuses examine hackability of autonomous farm vehicles.

Serving The Food Industry

The Food Processing Center offers technical support for startup food companies, consulting and analytical services for regional and national food commodities, and modern pilot plant facilities.

Working To Keep Producers Financially Healthy

The Center for Agriculture Profitability supports informed farm and ranch decision-making by facilitating faculty research, conducting outreach related to ag profitability, and training undergraduate and graduate students.

Supporting Rural Communities

Through the Rural Prosperity

Nebraska Fellows program, student scholars spend summers in Nebraska towns with locally-designed projects to support local business and collaborate on service-learning experiences.

Creating Entrepreneurs

Engler

Agribusiness

Entrepreneurship

Program awards

$200,000 in scholarships each year, providing experiential education to grow enterprises and businesses. It’s headquartered in a dramatic space inside the newly-renovated Dinsdale Family Learning Commons.

Creating Better Grains

A team of global researchers has a long history of bringing to market wheat cultivars that offer farmers hardiness and growth characteristics that result in improved yields.

Improving Meat Quality

The best-incountry facilities support ongoing projects including pre-harvest research to improve meat quality and quantity, product research, processing and food safety.

Supporting Ag Research With Technology

With 12,800 square feet of greenhouse space, the Greenhouse Innovation Center features a unique robotic phenotyping system, stateof-the-art computer environmental controls, LED lights and 22-foot eave heights.

Preparing For Drought

The Drought Mitigation Center builds resilience through drought monitoring and planning, hosts the U.S. Drought Monitor, focuses on climatology, social science and public engagement — all for the benefit of farms, ranches, local, state and tribal governments, and even countries.

Building A Stem Pipeline

The Lincoln Public Schools-UNL Early College and Career STEM Program at Lincoln Northeast High School focuses on food, energy, water and societal systems, allowing students to get a head start toward exploring careers in agriculture and natural resources and earn college credit or non-credit competencies.

Helping Students Change The World

The competitive Changemaker scholarship program seeks students with big ideas to make a difference in the world and pairs them with mentors to carry out their dreams.

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