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The 2021 Crop Management Diagnostic Clinics will highlight the latest research on corn and soybean production, with live plot demonstrations and training sessions with CCA credits. The corn production clinic is Aug. 25, and soybeans are the focus of the Aug. 26 clinic.

A view of some of the research plots surrounding the Panhandle Research, Extension and Education Center, taken by a drone.

Extension educator Justin McMechan (far right) speaks to attendees during a past Soybean Management Field Day.

A grain sorghum variety trial will be just one of the stops on the High Plains Ag Lab Field Tour Aug. 10.

Trey Stephens, agronomy master’s student, discusses a project of interaction of planting green and pre-emergence herbicides on weed control in soybean.

This week, Nebraska Extension Educator Ben Beckman chats about the importance of managing toxicity risks in regrowth of summer annuals like sorghum and sudangrass.

Hosted by Samantha Teten and Jackson Stansell — graduate students in UNL's Department of Biological Systems Engineering and Nebraska Extension Digital Agriculture team members — FarmBits Podcast is a weekly series highlighting new innovations and trends in digital agriculture through interviews with academic experts, farmers and industry specialists.

Thick, dense, upper canopy of sorghum-sudangrass field in Lincoln, Nebraska. (CropWatch file photo)

Hosted by Samantha Teten and Jackson Stansell — graduate students in UNL's Department of Biological Systems Engineering and Nebraska Extension Digital Agriculture team members — FarmBits Podcast is a weekly series highlighting new innovations and trends in digital agriculture through interviews with academic experts, farmers and industry specialists. Ethan Noll, of AgPartners Cooperative, Inc., offers his perspective on the digital tools that AgPartners is leveraging to enhance crop protection services for their customers.

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Corn with hail damage from a July 9, 2021 storm, 10 miles west of Hemingford.

Hosted by Samantha Teten and Jackson Stansell — graduate students in UNL's Department of Biological Systems Engineering and Nebraska Extension Digital Agriculture team members — FarmBits Podcast is a weekly series highlighting new innovations and trends in digital agriculture through interviews with academic experts, farmers and industry specialists.