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2021 Preliminary Results (Farm Real Estate Report) 

The full report is expected to be published in early June.

Custom Rates are established and revised every two years. Working with Nebraska's producers for 26 years to address critical production, profitability, and natural resources questions. Click for more information and dates!

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Innovative Youth Corn Challenge

UNL Crops and Water Resources

Rural Stress Resource List

Staying Connected During Tough Times. Resources for Nebraska Farmers, Ranchers, and Their Families. We hope you reach out if you are feeling stressed.

Cornhusker Economics 

Cornhusker Economics is a weekly publication of the department's research, teaching and extension activities.

Meet our Zone Water and Integrated Cropping Systems Educator Team!


Brandy VanDeWalle


Brandy is a Nebraska Extension Educator engaging youth in crop science programming, teaches agricultural literacy to youth and has a passion for 4-H & FFA.

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Nathan Mueller PhD, CCA

WATER & INTEGRATED CROPPING SYSTEMS EXTENSION EDUCATOR

Nathan Mueller, Nebraska Extension Water & Integrated Cropping Systems Educator, serves Saline, Jefferson, and Gage counties in southeast Nebraska. After growing up on the family dairy farm near Fremont, Nebraska, he earned a bachelor’s and master’s degree in agronomy from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. After that, he worked for the Indiana State Department of Agriculture – Soil Conservation Division for two years while his wife attended Purdue University. He moved to Manhattan, KS where he worked on a PhD at Kansas State University in the Department of Agronomy. His doctoral research was on the nitrogen use of winter annual weeds in no-till corn systems and liquid starter and foliar micronutrient fertilizers for high yield irrigated corn and soybeans. Prior to moving back to Nebraska, he was an assistant professor and the East River Extension Agronomist for South Dakota State University from 2012-2014. Nathan is a Certified Crop Adviser in Nebraska and serves as a local extension specialist for winter wheat production in eastern Nebraska.

Contact Information:

Office: 402-821-2151

Ron Seymour, PhD

Ron Seymour is a cropping systems Extension Educator with emphasis on corn and soybean production. Ron also works extensively in crop pest management with specific expertise in insect issues. Ron has an interest in developing areas that border field crops as habitat that promote populations of beneficial arthropods.

Contact Information:

rseymour1@unl.edu

402-461-7209