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Conducting On-Farm Research provides farmers with information that improves their return on investment by testing products and techniques in an unbiased, repeatable format.
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2025 Crop Production Clinics
Clinics are at Various Locations. Commercial and private pesticide license recertification offered.
2025 Landlord/Tenant Cash Rent Workshop
Will be held at Nebraska Extension in Adams County on January 30, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Must register to attend.
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2025 Central Nebraska Soil Health Conference
Event is January 29, 2025, Registration Required by January 22nd
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CHIME
Early Childhood
Cultivating Healthy, Intentional, Mindful Educators- CHIME, is an 8-week series that offers research and best practices for providing responsive care by engaging in reflective practices. Mindfulness as it applies to the early childhood setting and social-emotional development is presented along with ways to be more responsive and less reactive towards children and work challenges. Strategies are shared for incorporating mindfulness practices into daily activities as a way to facilitate and enhance educator’s abilities in maintaining a healthy sense of well-being and nurturing children’s development.
For more information on the next CHIME on-line program go to our website.
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Co-parenting for Successful Kids
“Co-parenting for Successful Kids” is a research-based education class designed to help separating and divorcing parents cope with divorce and custody. Strengthens communication skills that can improve interactions between children and parents.
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Horticulture, Gardening, Lawns
Trees have been rapidly changing color from green to their autumn hues. Now is the time to take note of which trees would be attractive additions to your yards, whether you’re planting this fall or next spring.
Not all trees grow well in Nebraska. Among those that do grow well here, not all trees are suitable for every space.
One of Adams County’s Nebraska Extension Master Gardener projects, Highland Park Arboretum in Hastings, provides homeowners with a living reference of trees that grow well in Nebraska.
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Master Gardener Training 2025
The Central Nebraska Master Gardener Program will be offering classes in several different ways, in-person at the Hall County Extension office located in Grand Island, over zoom in the evenings, and through an online platform.
For more information in Adams County contact Rita Brhel at 402-261-7209, via email rbrhel3@unl.edu or visit the Hall County website.
Registration and Information
4-H is open to ALL YOUTH, of ALL ABILITIES ages 5 to 18. Youth can join 4-H at any time of the year. We strongly recommend youth enroll by April 15th to have the best participation in the Adams County 4-H Program. Some projects require an earlier enrollment, such as shooting sports.
We appreciate and value our ADULT volunteers, who help and guide our youth.
The enrollment process is done online and needs to be done every year for both, Youth and Volunteers.
4-H Shooting Sports for 2025
New in 2025 for Adams County 4-H Shooting Sports
Classes beginning the week of January 6, 2025
Registration can only be done in-person at the Adams County Extension Office.
We will continue to take registrations until classes have started or until Class size is met.
More Details2025 Tractor & Equipment Safety Training
Federal law prohibits youth under 16 years of age from using certain equipment on a farm unless their parents or legal guardians own the farm. However, certification received through National Safe Tractor and Machinery Operation Program (NSTMOP) grants an exemption to the law allowing 14- and 15-year-olds to drive a tractor and to do field work with certain mechanized equipment.
In Nebraska, Nebraska Extension and CS-CASH collaborate to offer NSTMOP certification. Certification is earned by completing a two-day certification course, which includes a written test and a driving exam. Successful completion grants NSTMOP certification, allowing youth to operate tractors and certain mechanized equipment on farms and ranches, and obtain a husbandry permit.
Classes will be offered in May and June. Must register to attend on the UNMC College of Public Health website.
NDA's Annual Poster Contest Highlights Amazing Nebraska Agriculture
Students get your crayons ready! The Nebraska Department of Agriculture’s (NDA) annual poster contest is underway and open to all Nebraska students in first through sixth grades. This year’s theme, “Agriculture is Amazing,” highlights and celebrates Nebraska’s number one industry. The deadline to submit posters is March 1, 2025.
“Everything about Nebraska agriculture is amazing, from the food we eat, to the feed for our livestock, to the fuel for our vehicles,” said NDA Director Sherry Vinton. “It’s important to tell students about Nebraska’s incredible ag industry and how agriculture is the heart of our roots and economy. Our annual poster contest gives parents and teachers an opportunity to share their knowledge.”
NDA will announce the winners during National Agriculture Week, March 16-22, 2025, the perfect time to celebrate Nebraska agriculture. National Ag Week highlights the diversity of agriculture and celebrates the food, fuel, and fiber that farmers and ranchers provide every day. NDA will feature winning entries from this year’s contest on its website and in promotional materials and publications.
NDA’s poster contest is divided into three age categories for judging purposes: first and second grade students; third and fourth grade students; and fifth and sixth grade students, in any Nebraska public, private or home school. All posters must be created exclusively by students and relate to this year’s theme. Entries will be judged on originality, effort, and accuracy, and must be received at NDA’s office by March 1, 2025.
Poster contest rules and official entry forms are available online at nda.nebraska.gov/kids. For more information, contact Christin Kamm at 402-471-6856 or by email at christin.kamm@nebraska.gov.
