Entrepreneur Spotlight: Agricultural Flaming Innovations researches, designs advanced weed flaming products

In a field of soybeans, one Nebraska organic farmer attempts to solve a life-long problem: weed control. He doesn’t have many options. Cultivation removes weeds between crop rows but not within the rows. He could hire a crew for hand weeding, but that would be prohibitively expensive for row crops such as corn, soybean and sunflower. The [...]

Agriculture Innovation with Mark Gustafson

Nebraska Entrepreneur sat down with Mark Gustafson to talk about agricultural innovation in Nebraska and the University of Nebraska’s role in that. Mark Gustafson is the founding director of the Engler Agribusiness Entrepreneurship Program and the Paul Engler Chair of Agribusiness Entrepreneurship of the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources at the University of Nebraska [...]

Prairieland Connects Consumer with Farmer

The past two years have been rough for dairy farmers. The combination of low milk prices combined with historically high production costs made 2009 one of the worst years on record for the dairy industry, according to the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute. Like most U.S. dairy farms, Prairieland Dairy just outside of Firth,Nebr.,recorded [...]

Engler Agribusiness Entrepreneurship Program takes shape

The Paul F. and Virginia J. Engler Foundation donated $20 million to the University of Nebraska at Lincoln earlier this year in an effort to create a program focused on finding students with entrepreneurial drive and providing those students with the resources to help educate them in successful agribusiness. The program is in its infancy [...]

CropMetrics provides exclusive services for area farms

Expansive fields of crops are common sites in Nebraska. Behind every field there’s a specific science that focuses on the best way to plant, irrigate and harvest these crops.  Many farmers don’t have the proper equipment to yield the best results. This is where Nick Emanuel and CropMetrics come in. Emanuel, a native of North [...]