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Heuermann Lectures

The Heuermann Lectures focus on providing security, and here security means enough to sustain the world, in the areas of food, natural resources, and renewable energy for people, as well as on securing the sustainability of rural communities where the vital work of producing food and renewable energy occurs.

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Upcoming Lecture

Nourishing a Healthy Future: The Role of Irrigation in a Changing World

Tuesday, April 29, 2025 | 4:30-6:00 p.m.

Part of the 2025 Water for Food Global Conference

Nebraska Innovation Campus Conference Center, Lincoln, NE

This presentation explores the key linkages between irrigation and healthy diets and highlights opportunities and challenges to improving irrigation’s role in nourishing a healthier future amid growing competition over water resources and other constraints.

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This public lecture series in the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln is made possible through a gift from B. Keith and Norma Heuermann of Phillips, Nebraska. The Heuermanns are long-time university supporters with a strong commitment to Nebraska's production agriculture, natural resources, rural areas and people

Meet Keith Heuermann

Nebraska agriculture has been part of Keith Heuermann's life since childhood, and he has seen many changes over the years. In these brief videos he talks about some of those changes, as well as the wonder of corn, the droughts of the 1930s, 1950s and 2012, the importance and issues of food for the world, what he'd do if starting out today, and more.

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The next lecture will be at:
Nebraska Innovation Campus Conference Center
2021 Transformation Drive,
Lincoln, NE

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