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Our cattle and environmental management research focuses on enhancing cattle production efficiency and environmental sustainability through innovative feedlot technologies, reproductive management, and adaptive grazing systems. These programs integrate advanced data analytics, genetic tools, and producer collaboration to develop resilient livestock systems that address climate variability and resource conservation.
Cattle & Environmental Management Research Sites
Klosterman Feedlot Innovation Center
The Klosterman Feedlot Innovation Center is located at the Eastern Nebraska Research, Extension and Education Center near Mead, Nebraska. The $7.2 million facility paves the way for world-class research projects and teaching and extension opportunities in a commercial-scale, state-of-the-art feedlot. In addition, the facility will serve as a one-of-a-kind testbed where industry partners can see how new and emerging technologies work.
Haskell Agricultural Laboratory
The Haskell Ag Lab supports research, teaching and extension for the people of Nebraska. As such, there are a number diverse research projects conducted at the Haskell Ag Lab in addition extension programming and support for area teachers. The primary mission of the Haskell Ag Lab is to provide research-based education programs for people in northeast Nebraska to prevent or solve problems.
Great Plains Heifer Development Program
Amid historic lows in the nation's cowherd, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is looking to help beef producers optimize heifer development and reproductive efficiency. The Great Plains Heifer Development program at Haskell Beef Lab near Concord, NE aims to give producers game-changing data about their replacement females years ahead of data tracking at home.
Gudmundsen Sandhills Laboratory
The Gudmundsen Sandhills Laboratory (GSL) is located in the heart of the Nebraska Sandhills in Grant, Hooker and Cherry counties. Joint projects with animal, range, soil, veterinary, economics, entomology, geology, hydrology, forestry and wildlife have increased our understanding of the Sandhill's ecosystem, resulting in advances in range livestock nutrition, beef cattle reproduction, grazing systems, rangeland ecology, cost-effective cattle management, groundwater issues and wildlife management.
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Barta Brothers Ranch
The Barta Brothers Ranch is located in the northeastern Sandhills in Brown and Rock counties. The ranch is to be used by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln for research and demonstration programs in the integration of range management (including grazing and livestock production), prairie forestry, wildlife management, and conservation.
High Plains Ag Lab
The High Plains Ag Lab (HPAL) is a satellite unit of the Panhandle Research and Extension Center in Scottsbluff. Our mission is to improve the profitability of dryland crop and livestock production through applied research responsive to the needs of local producers. HPAL covers 2,400 acres, one-third in dryland crop rotations and two-thirds in pasture.
Panhandle Research Feedlot
With 105 total pens and a state-of-the-art cattle handling area, the Panhandle Research Feedlot provides precise, timely research data with real value to the cattle feeding industry.
Panhandle Experimental Range
The Panhandle Experimental Range has been used for research for more than 100 years. In 1918, the federal government gave the university an 800-acre piece of rangeland in southern Sioux County to conduct regionally relevant research.
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Center for Resilience in Agricultural Working Landscapes (CRAWL)
The Center for Resilience in Agricultural Working Landscapes (CRAWL) serves as the platform for integrating resilience into agriculture to serve the personal and economic well-being of Nebraskans and the state’s valued resources.
