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The Nebraska Women in Agriculture program, along with the Nebraska Beef Quality Assurance Program, are excited to announce the second annual Herd That! Conference on September 19 and 20, 2023 in Broken Bow, Nebraska.

Find out what is happening at the Haskell Ag Lab in the Haskell Happenings Newsletter

https://extension.unl.edu/statewide/hal/haskell-happenings-newsletter/

Nebraska 4-H is excited to announce the second year of the Nebraska 4-H Livestock Achievement Program. This additional opportunity for enrolled livestock project youth, is designed to promote all educational aspects of 4-H livestock projects including selection, production, leadership, and exhibition by recognizing youth striving to improve in their livestock project knowledge and leadership. 

The program recognizes Members of Excellence across all 4-H livestock project areas, including: beef, sheep, meat goat, swine, dairy cattle, dairy goat, rabbit, and poultry. 

Are you interested in learning more about beekeeping?  There is a Bee Lab at UNL!  The lab offers education, resources, research and more.  Find out more about upcoming workshops below or visit the website at:   https://entomology.unl.edu/bee-lab

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Nebraska Equine Extension to host a second “Race Nebraska” Seminar

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Poll: Rural Nebraskans are increasingly pessimistic about present, future

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Twenty-seven percent of respondents to the 2023 Nebraska Rural Poll indicated they are worse off than they were five years ago, up from 21% last year and 11% in 2021.

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Jansen discusses farmland valuations with RFD-TV

September 18, 2023

In Nebraska, ag land values are up about 14 percent over last year, mirroring a nationwide rise in ag real estate prices. Click through to watch Jim Jansen, an agricultural systems economist with Nebraska Extension, talk with RFD-TV about the impact of valuations.

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