Water Law 101: Part 4, Groundwater Terms and Definitions
Center pivot irrigation in Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska. (Photo by Gary Stone)
The Value of Farm Business Policies for Employees
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The Biggest Grower returns with summer learning, scholarship for high schoolers
Nebraska Extension and the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture will again be offering a student gardening competition this summer. | Shutterstock
Pasture and Forage Minute: Adjusting Stocking Rates, Baleage Equipment and Summer Annual Grass Control
If there are changes to your animal intake or pasture productivity, it can disrupt the balance of your stocking rate. Annual evaluation is necessary to maintain an equitable distribution of animals on your pastures.
Free Farm and Ag Law Clinics Set for May
Free legal and financial clinics are being offered for farmers and ranchers across the state in May 2021, providing one-on-one meetings with an agricultural law attorney and an agricultural financial counselor.
Tracking Soil and Air Temperatures-Soybean Planting Considerations
These photos depict a field that is being monitored for soil and air temperatures under corn and soybean residue and living rye cover crop at York, Nebraska. (Photos by Jenny Rees)
Starter Fertilizer — When is it Needed?
The best reason to use starter is when your field is deficient in one or more nutrients.
What is This Insect?
Figure 1. Aphid mummies in south central Nebraska alfalfa field. (Photo by Andrew Cantrell)
#NField Observations for April 2021
This week, Extension Plant Pathologist Tamra Jackson-Ziems shares information on a new soybean foliar fungicide survey and its importance for Nebraska farmers.
FarmBits Podcast: Enabling Insights with FieldView
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.
With Transition to Panhandle, UNL Variety Testing Program Moves Beyond Winter Wheat
Cody Creech, UNL Dryland Cropping Systems specialist, and Amanda Easterly, assistant professor for Research based at High Plains Ag Lab, view some of the winter wheat variety plots at HPAL.
Controlling Summer Annual Grasses in Forages
Control of summer annual grasses in pasture or hay fields can be difficult, but with the right planning, it shouldn’t be impossible.
Cover Crop Termination Tradeoffs
Corn (left) and soybean (right) planted green into no-till fields of cereal rye in 2020. The grower who planted corn felt the rye better held residue in place from blowing back over the planted rows, giving him more even emergence. The grower who planted beans was very pleased with the overall weed suppression in this field. (Photos by Jenny Rees)
Final Results from a Multi-state Study on Cover Crop Termination with Herbicides
Figure 1. A fall seeded cover crop such as cereal rye can be a great tool for preventing the emergence of horseweed and other winter annual weed species, as well as suppressing early-season waterhemp emergence.