A summer in western Nebraska has provided inspiration for Maria Teresa Alvarado, an intern from Chile and an undergraduate student at the University of Concepcion. Alvarado learned about the internship from Kainyon Tay, head of.
The dry bean harvest is underway across the Panhandle. At the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Panhandle Research Extension and Education Center in Scottsbluff, Carlos Urrea, UNL dry bean breeder, has been hand-selecting dry bean plants for research. Urrea and his team go into the fields before harvest and pull out the dry bean plants with desired traits.