Nebraska Cover Crop and Soil Health Conference Recordings are now available:
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Area producers will find valuable resources and can access virtual field days through the following links:
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The new Ag Budget Calculator (ABC) program is working well now for crop enterprise budgeting! Now, all of the 2022 UNL crop budgets are available in the program for producers and ag managers to download into their own ABC account and modify or customize as their own cost of production budgets, or they can start from scratch and create their own. The budgets were posted in CropWatch. https://cropwatch.unl.edu/budgets
Virtual training sessions have been scheduled from now through early February for ABC program users. See this link - https://cap.unl.edu/abc/training
2022 rates charged by custom operators for machine hire services and other work they provide for neighboring farms and ranches. This publication includes both Spring and Fall rates. 2022 Nebraska Farm Custom Rates.
Cornhusker Economics 2023 Farmland Values and Rental Rates:
Farm Succession powerpoint by Allan Vyhnalek, Department of Agricultural Economics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Featured at the Butler County Ag Expo, main topics include:
The need and importance of planning. Importance of effective family communication. How generational values effects communication. How the on-farm sibling is treated, fair or equal? Who you have on a team to work on succession. Make better use of your lawyers’ time.Local Resources
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Amid the high temperatures in western Nebraska, wheat harvest has been going on.
“We’re right in the middle of wheat harvest,” said Cody Creech, Nebraska Extension dryland cropping specialist at the UNL High Plains Ag Lab in Sidney. “The rest of the state has wrapped up, and we’ll be completing harvest this week.”
Typical for most growers, weather has been a big factor in wheat yields. The yield reports in the Panhandle vary depending on whether the fields were hit by hail or not.