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from the issue of September 9, 2004
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Feedlot has room to grow
Ground was broken in March for a significant expansion of the research feedlot facility at the Panhandle Research and Extension Center in Scottsbluff. The expansion positions the UNL Panhandle Feedlot Research Program as the premier provider of feedlot cattle research and allows UNL to educate and train personnel for the industry through internships and training of graduate students. The $510,000 project was funded by the beef industry, including ranchers and feedlot owners, pharmaceutical and feed companies, local banks and individuals.
The livestock industry, mainly cattle, accounts for more than half of the gross agricultural sales in western Nebraska. More than 65 percent of Panhandle land is available for grazing and to support more than one-quarter-million beef cows. Panhandle feedlots finish about 700,000 head of cattle annually.
Research conducted at the new facility will provide new information to enhance profitability of the feedlot sector.
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NEWS HEADLINES FOR SEPTEMBER 9
Year in Review 2003-2004
Looking to the Future: New People, New Facilities - Construction brightens landscape and buildings
Research and Discovery - Biological center studies vaccines for botulinum, Valley Fever
Service to Our State - UNL unites to help storm victims
Student Successes - 12 earn the nation's biggest academic honors
Teaching Faculty & Program Successes - Grant funds Fosse study, leads to D.C.
Teaching, Faculty & Program Successes - New college focuses on families, education
The University from a National View - UNL
100 years of Extension
2 honored for research, creativity
Academy praises film
Architecture chapter is best in the country
Broadcasting senior claims 2nd forensics title
Center assists food companies for 20 years
Company helps track mad cow disease
Conference tackles water, law conflicts
Duo looks into social impacts of infertility
Feedlot has room to grow
Future lawyers win national contest
Graduate earns 1st degree in culinology
Hanson gains USDA teaching award
Helping parents prepare for school
J.D. Edwards students create cattle-tracking software
Nebraska Lectures return
Now on NET: HDTV
NU gains a new president, other leaders for new year
Program creates tests to fight food allergens
Ritchie's work earns NU honors
Savory joins Academy
Scientists' beef research earns international prize
Statistics expands
Tularemia examined as a bioterror threat
UNL continues to climb various U.S. rankings
UNL is a home for all things Lewis and Clark
Work studies our unique Sandhills
Zeng's discoveries lead to fellowship
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