Panhandle Research Extension and Education Center



From left are Carrie Johns, Gering High School, ag-FFA teacher and advisor, and Kasey Trocke, Lennox Junior and Senior High ag-FFA teacher and advisor, review instructions before starting work on their microcontrollers. (Photo by Troy White.)

UNL gives educators tools to bring automation to the heartland

The pivot with KZ valves waters a plot at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Panhandle Research Extension and Education Center in Scottsbluff. (Photo by Chabella Guzman.)
In a dry edible bean plot at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Panhandle Research Extension and Education Center-Mitchell Lab, Maria Alvarado, UNL graduate student, left, Kainyon Tay, head of the legume program in Chile, and Carlos Urrea, UNL dry bean breeder, look for desirable bean plants. (Photo by Chabella Guzman.)

Bean breeders scout fields for desirable bean genetics

Timothy Porch, research geneticist at U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, left, and Carlos Urrea, Nebraska Extension dry bean breeding specialist, scout a plot of dry beans. (Photo by Chelsea Didinger.)

Dry bean breeders collaborate on climate-savvy bean