Extension Instructor or Open Rank Extension Educator
Water and Cropping Systems
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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The use of technology is transforming the agriculture industry through the use of high-resolution imagery and various types of sensors. Drones are playing a major role in advancing this technological transformation of the agriculture industry.
The Nebraska Farm Real Estate Survey’s 2023 preliminary report is available with updated land values and cash rental rates. Land is up 14% across the state compared to the prior year. The full results are published on the Center for Agricultural Profitability’s website at https://cap.unl.edu/realestate.
There is also a new Cornhusker Economics article that offers additional analysis: https://agecon.unl.edu/nebraska-farmland-values-and-cash-rental-rates-2023.
Come and learn about selecting fall-planted cover crops for different management goals! We will tour plots with rye, triticale, wheat, barley, oats, hairy vetch, brassica varieties, and several mixes. This free program will be held May 2, from 1 pm to 3 pm at the Haskell Ag Lab. The address is 57905 866 Road Concord NE 68728. Refreshments will be provided.
Mitiku Mamo is a Water and Cropping Systems Extension Educator serving Cedar, Dixon, Knox, and Wayne Counties.
Nebraska Extension will be offering a training entitled “Confronting Cropping Challenges” in several locations throughout Northeast Nebraska. Confronting Cropping Challenges training gives attendees an opportunity to learn from the challenges they might have faced during this past growing season or may face during the coming growing season by going more in-depth.
Mitiku Mamo is a Water and Cropping Systems Extension Educator serving Cedar, Dixon, Knox, and Wayne Counites
On March 29, 2022, the EPA announced that the use of Enlist One and Enlist Duo, two Corteva Agriscience herbicides used for the control of weeds in conventional and genetically modified corn, cotton, and soybean crops was expanded to an additional 134 counties for the 2022 growing season.
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