Research & Extension Center

The Roman L. Hruska U.S. Meat Animal Research Center is a federal livestock research station at 844 Road 313 near Clay Center, in Clay County, run by the USDA Agricultural Research Service. It covers just under 35,000 acres and has worked on beef, sheep and swine problems since 1964, splitting its effort roughly half to beef cattle, a third to swine and the rest to sheep.

The Wheat, Sorghum and Forage Research Unit is a USDA Agricultural Research Service laboratory in Filley Hall on the University of Nebraska's east campus in Lincoln. It works on plant genetics, plant pathology, molecular biology and production systems for wheat, sorghum and forage crops.