Legacy: Spring 2019

After 18 years of service, Steve Rhines takes the helm of the Noble Research Institute ready to steer the organization into the next generation.

Many at the Noble Research Institute raise cattle and are otherwise engaged in production agriculture outside of their full-time jobs. Others grew up on farms and ranches. These are their stories.

Noble scientists are using the gene editing technique CRISPR to improve legume cover crops.

For more than a decade, college students from across the country have joined the Noble Research Institute as Lloyd Noble Scholars in Agriculture and Plant Science. Here is what some of them are doing now.

Steve Rhines, who has served the Noble Research Institute for nearly 20 years, introduces himself as the organization’s new president.

Many soil health measures require laboratory analysis. However, there are a few indicators a person can look and smell for right in the field.

Advances in microscope technology allow scientists to gain increasingly greater glimpses into how plants function, generating knowledge that can be turned into tools for farmers and ranchers.

For those thinking about becoming a beekeeper, the first step is to find a community of people on the same learning journey. The next is to build a hive — the home for bees.

Yaxin Ge, Ph.D., shares her egg roll recipe, a favorite among Noble Research Institute employees for more than a decade.

If you want to know who our new president is, just know this — he is a servant first and foremost. He believes that we are all responsible for the details. No one is too important to do any job. Because even on big days, we still do all the little things that make Noble noble.