Checking N
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Checking N



The Checking N series provides weekly insights on tools, methods and impact found through University of Nebraska nitrogen management research. Learn about the Nitrogen Research for Agriculture Transformation and Enhancement (NRATE) project and other timely topics. Our goal is to help growers discover ways that our findings could work in their operations.

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Season 1 - Episode 1

Introducing Checking N, a series we created to provide weekly insights to the tools, methods and impact found through our nitrogen management research. Our goal is to help you discover ways that these methods could work in your operation.

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Season 1 - Episode 2

In this week’s episode of Checking N we cover some of our research goals in optimizing nitrogen use. Thanks for #CheckingN with us!

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Season 1 - Episode 3

In this week’s episode we are #CheckingN with Midland Farms. Jay and Emily Hanson discuss how their operation has participated in on-farm research over the years

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Season 1 - Episode 4

NDRE vs. NDVI - In this week’s episode Katie Bathke covers the differences between NDVI and NDRE indexes. Thanks for #CheckingN with us!

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Season 1 - Episode 5

EM spectrum - This week we are #CheckingN with Katie Bathke to discuss EM spectrum.

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Season 1 - Episode 6

Active canopy sensors -In this week’s episode we are #CheckingN from ENREEC's farm shop with Katie Bathke as she discusses active canopy crop sensors on the sprayer.

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Season 1 - Episode 7

In this week’s episode of #CheckingN Emily gives a breakdown of our superstar DJI drone and how it’s used to capture imagery.

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Season 1 - Episode 8

This week we take a closer look at eBee drones that we’ve used in over a 100 on-farm research studies since 2015.

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Season 1 - Episode 9

In this week’s episode we look at how satellite imagery can be used as another source of data for crop health status.

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Season 1 - Episode 10

Imagery processing ep10 - In this week’s episode of #CheckingN Emily walks us through the “process” of imagery processing.

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Season 1 - Episode 11

In this episode of #CheckingN we look at how to estimate crop nitrogen requirements by comparing imagery across the field to non-nitrogen limited “reference” plots using sufficiency index.

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Season 1 - Episode 12

Thanks for #CheckingN with us this season and be sure to tune in next season where we will cover how we interpret and use harvest/yield data results to plan for the growing season, utilizing fertigation and meet more growers in our on-farm research network.