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Passing the Torch: Ag Census Data Highlights Nebraska’s Need for Farm Transition Planning
No full textNebraska agriculture is at a crossroads. With the recent USDA Census of Agriculture showing an aging producer population that is continuing to rise, the state faces significant challenges in ensuring its agricultural land and legacy is passed on to the next generation of producers.
The aging producer population rose significantly from 2012 to 2017, with an increase from 50.9% to 60% of producers being over the age of 65 during this time. In 2022, it has remained steady at around 60%.
Despite most producers in Nebraska being over 65 years old, it is estimated that only 50% of operations have up-to-date succession plans in place. A 2017 University of Nebraska-Lincoln survey showed that producers often don’t think about estate and succession planning for various reasons. Some producers never plan to retire, while others do not have a successor. Another reason is that some producers are not ready to give up control of their operation
Within My Glass Doors
No full textDuring his last years (1915–1916) Natsume Sōseki was often troubled by the stomach ailment that eventually took his life at age 49. Constrained by his illness to remain at his home in Waseda, a Tokyo suburb, he nevertheless continued to work on his novels and to write columns for publication in the Asahi Shimbun newspaper.
Within My Glass Doors collects those 39 columns; in them he discusses his visitors, his illness, memories of his childhood and family, and interactions with colleagues new and old. The most autobiographical and revealing of all his writings, this collection of essays displays his remarkable insights into his own moods and mental states, as well as his unfailing humor and unique self-analysis and deprecation.
This translation of Garasudo-no-naka / 硝子戸の中 (1915) was made by Iwao Matsuhara and Edwin T. Iglehart and originally published in 1928.https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/zeabook/1169/thumbnail.jp
Review of \u3cem\u3e3D Data Acquisition for Bioarcheology, Forensic Anthropology, and Archeology\u3c/em\u3e
No full text3D Data Acquisition for Bioarcheology, Forensic Anthropology, and Archeology (2019) by Noriko Seguchi and Beatrix Dudzik is a first of its kind text that looks to educate the buddings 3D analyst on the popular methods and practices of data acquisition within contemporary 3D imaging software. While the text does assume a lot of the reader heading into it, especially so mathematically, the authors do a wonderful job explaining how 3D imaging works, and then how to accurately and precisely collect data from these images. Being sure to explain potential sources of error and how to present and interpret the data you collect, all in all, it\u27s a difficult read, but a wonderful text
The Black-Market Commodification of Human Organs and Bones: A Marxist Perspective
No full textThe trade and treatment of human remains, while seemingly straightforward, have increasingly become subjects of ethical and moral debate. Over time and in light of recent events, questions have emerged regarding the appropriateness of how human remains are handled and exchanged. This paper examines these issues through the lens of Marxist framework and the perspective of forensic anthropology. The objective is to provide contextual understanding and encourage a reevaluation of current practices, particularly within academic settings, to ensure that human morals, dignity and ethical standards are upheld
Graduate Student Literature Review from The Development of the Brouwer Equation to Estimate Heat Production: Past, Present, and Future Perspectives in \u3cem\u3eJournal of Dairy Science\u3c/em\u3e (2025)
No full textAppendix 1, supplemental to The development of the Brouwer equation to estimate heat production: Past, present, and future perspectives, Journal of Dairy Science (2025)
NASIS Reference List
No full textThis document contains citations of articles and presentations that have used NASIS data
The Effect of Need for Closure, Gender Essentialism, and Contact on Transphobia
No full textUsing a motivated social cognition framework, this study explores whether there is an indirect effect of need for closure on transphobia via gender essentialism and whether this relationship is moderated by transgender contact. Data were collected from an undergraduate sample of 405 cisgender participants (nmen = 159, nwomen = 246). A simple mediation and a moderated mediation were used to examine the hypothesized relationships, controlling for participant gender. Results reinforced the positive correlation between gender essentialism and transphobia and the negative correlation between transgender contact and transphobia. However, the mediation and moderation hypotheses were not supported. Need for closure was found to be unrelated to transphobia, contrary to past research. The applicability of motivated cognition to transphobia is re-considered and clinical and research implications discussed.
Advisors: Michael J. Scheel and Dena Abbot
The Big Bang Theory’s Blurred (Tele)Vision of Scientific Ethics: Some Thoughts for Educators Who Want to Change the Channel
No full textThis article investigates the way the popular American television program The Big Bang Theory represents the pursuit of scientific knowledge and reflects on the cultural and educational implications of the show’s contradictory problematization and valorization of the reductionist method at the core of modern Eurocentric science. Drawing on story-lines relating to military research, animal experimentation, and pharmaceutical drug trials, we consider the show’s precarious balance of implicit critique (the consistent exposé of systematically violent, often unethical research) and overt celebration (the presentation of science as “cool,” and its practitioners as flawed but endearing). This tension, we argue, enhances the show’s value for educators, serving as a case study of both the potential for, and the limits of, interrogating scientific orthodoxy via popular culture. The critical flaw in the show is its unquestioning acceptance of the western scientific method and its obliviousness to the merits or existence of alternative, non-Eurocentric approaches. Revealing this absence, we conclude, offers an opportunity for educators to foster respectful engagement with non-reductionist methods of inquiry into natural reality, including those central to the theory and practice of Indigenous Science
Demographic Match Between Colleges of Agriculture and Their States
No full textThis report examines whether the undergraduate demographics in the Colleges of Agriculture at four Midwestern land-grant universities—UNL (CASNR), Iowa State (CALS), Kansas State (Ag), and Missouri (CAFNR)—are keeping pace with the increasing diversity of their respective states, with a special focus on Underrepresented Minority (URM) students. This analysis is urgent because, despite some progress, most Colleges of Agriculture still enroll a smaller URM share than their states, and Black and Hispanic workers remain underrepresented in the STEM workforce (National Science Board & National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, 2024). Furthermore, the region\u27s recent growth has been disproportionately driven by people of color (Kayitsinga, 2022), emphasizing the need for these land-grant institutions to better reflect the populations they serve.
Conclusion
The analysis confirms that all four Midwest Colleges of Agriculture trail their state URM benchmarks. UNL CASNR faces the most severe gap, which is primarily an entry-point shortfall that severely constrains its overall URM representation. The persistence of the RI gap across all institutions, despite some raw gains, emphasizes the need for coordinated, sustained, and integrated strategies that focus on high-impact interventions, especially in large, flagged program clusters, to move decisively toward true parity