University of Nebraska officials have bid to become the new headquarters for the United States Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture.

University of Nebraska – Lincoln Chancellor Ronnie Green says the university has partnered with the state of Nebraska and the city of Lincoln on the bid to bring the two agencies to Innovation Campus in Lincoln, built on the former state fairgrounds.

Green, who once worked in Washington as a national program leader in USDA’s Agricultural Research Service, says moving the two agencies out of Washington, D.C. make sense

UNL isn’t the only Nebraska site making a bid. There are 136 entities bidding to be the new headquarters; among them are bids from Omaha and Sidney.