#NField Observations for July 2021
This week, Nebraska Extension Range and Forage Specialist Jerry Volesky shares his tips on producing quality hay from summer annual grasses like sorghum-sudangrass hybrids, forage sorghum and pearl millet.
Nebraska Water Center Conference Hits the Road this August for Scottsbluff
In this photo from the Platte Basin Timelapse Project, an irrigation canal delivers water to farmland in Scotts Bluff County. Scotts Bluff National Monument is on the horizon.
Disease Reports from the UNL Diagnostic Clinic — June 30
Photo 1. Rhizoctonia root rot of soybeans. Lesions near the soil line tend to be sunken and dry.
Degree-days for Prediction of Western Bean Cutworm Flight
The growth stage of corn during WBC flight is critical as moths prefer to lay their eggs on corn plants between the late whorl to early tassel stage. Survival of young WBC larvae is highest if they can feed on newly emerged tassel prior to moving into the ears.
2021 Corn Yield Forecasts: Approach and Interpretation of Results
The Yield Forecasting Center (YFC) will provide real-time information on corn phenology and forecasts of corn yield potential every three weeks, starting in mid-July, to aid growers and ag industry in making management, logistics, and marketing decisions through the 2021 season.
Ag Carbon Credit Contract Checklist
Get Lost Mike/Pexels
Free Farm and Ag Law Clinics Set for July
With in-person meetings resuming, there are seven dates and locations set for free farm and ag law clinics in July.
Managing Risk with Annual Forages
USDA NRCS Montana (Flickr/Public Domain)
FarmBits Podcast: Solving for N
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.
ET Resources
ETgage installed near soybean field.
100-year Corn Yield Data from the Historic Knorr-Holden Plot in Nebraska
The Knorr-Holden Plot is currently supervised by Bijesh Maharjan, soil and nutrient management specialist at the UNL Panhandle Research and Extension Center.