UNL Extension Holt-Boyd Counties
Publications from Holt and Boyd
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October 6, 2024
Calendar; Belonging; Fire Safety During Harvest Season: Essential Tips for Farmers; Plan Now to Purchase Your Hay Supplies

September 29, 2024
Calendar; Children and Internet Safety; Determining a Fair Rent for Farm Buildings; Why is my Lilac Blooming in Fall, Instead of Spring?; Simple Synchronization of Cows - One Injection, One Time Through the Chute, and Bull Breed

September 22, 2024
Calendar; Finding Focus - Start of the School Year; Ideas for estate and Transition Planning: life Insurance Backed Buy-Sell Agreement; Hold the Net Wrap and Twine

September 15, 2024
Calendar; Pay Attention to Your Child's Good Behavior; Ideas for Estate and Transition Planning: Life Insurance for Debt Coverage; Reviewing Cow-Calf Share and Cash Lease Agreements

September 8, 2024
Calendar; Helping Children Resolve Conflicts; Ideas for Estate and Transition Planning: Life Insurance; Aster Yellows Wreaking Havoc - What Gives?; Merits of Early Pregnancy Diagnosis in Replacement Heifers

September 1, 2024
Calendar; Magic of Sensory Play; Is It Too Late to Spray Soybean Aphids?; Biosecurity Basics and Beyond: Ensuring Your Operaton's Future; News Release - Growing for Market Statewide Programs Coming in September and October!

August 25, 2024
Calendar; Helping Children to Get Along with Friends; Late Summer Pasture Weeds; Fall Armyworm Awareness; When Should Ranches Start Tax Planning?

August 18, 2024
Calendar; Back to School; Estate Planning: Stepped-Up Tax Basis; Corn Rooworm Beetles on Flowers in the Fall; Haying and Cattle Grazing Areas with Hemlock

August 11, 2004
Calendar; Making Back to School COOL; How to Harvest, Ripen, and Store Pears; Harvesting Potatoes in the Home Garden; Cashing In on Your Calf Crop; Adding Value at the Auction Block

August 4, 2024
Calendar; Controlling Spill Over From Work to Home; Nebraska Ag Land values Up 5%, Cash Rents Moderating According to 2024 Farm Real Estate Report; Controlling Yucca on Rangeland; Planning for Ranch Risk Exposure Related to Forage and Livestock Production; News Release - New Format for Nebraska Soybean Management Field Day

July 28, 2024
Calendar; The Playful Parent: Unlocking Learning Through Joy; Transplanting and Dividing Iris; Determining a "Good" Price for New Crop Corn; Pinkeye in Cattle

July 21, 2024
Calendar; Discipline: When Children Misbehave; Corn Diseases Developing in Some Fields - What to Watch; Trichomoniasis: A Tricky Cause of Reproductive Failure in Beef Cattle

July 14, 2024
Calendar; Coping With Life; Scouting and Treatment Recommendations for Western Bean Cutworm; Understanding Daylilies; How Much Water Do Cattle Need and What Water Problems Should Cattle Producers Watch For?

July 8, 2024
Calendar; Getting My Baby or Toddler Ready for School? Are You Nuts?!?!; False Chinch Bugs Found in Nebraska; Managing Windrow Disease in Alfalfa; July 2024 Nebraska Rangeland & Pasture Update

June 30, 2024
Calendar; Lets' Preserve!; Poison Hemlock; Vegetable Issues; Considerations for Beef Producers Following a Flood Event

June 23, 2024
CCalendar; A Summer-Time Favorite - Watermelon;How to Determine the Chemigation Injection Pump Setting for a Center Pivot with the End Gun Off and On; Summer Blooming Perennials; Start Monitoring Grasshopper Numbers Now for Most Effective Control

June 16, 2024
Calendar; How to Avoid Giving Your Children Labels; The Basics of Loans for Farmers and Ranchers; Stable Flies on Pastured Cattle

June 9, 2024
Calendar; Summer is Here: Get Out and Move; Growing Dahlias; Soybean Gall Midge Adult Activity Detected in Nebraska; How Does Your Herd Measure Up?; Boyd County Communications Event News Release

June 2, 2024
Calendar; What Is Good Childcare?; Pillsbugs Causing Injury to Soybean Crops in Nebraska; and Predicted Hot, Dry Summer Could Impact Forage Production

May 26, 2024
Calendar; Summer Fun; Silage Feedout; Time to Start Planning for Heat in the Feedlot;

May 19, 2024
Calendar; Safety First When Packing a Lunch; Mosquitoes and Repellents; Healthy Guts Make Healthy Cattle

May 12, 2024
Calendar; Tips to Help Children in a World That is Critical of Body Size; Growing Tomatoes in the Home Garden; Pasture and Forage Minute: Selecting Summer Forages, Thistle Control Options; Horn Flies and Control Options

May 5, 2024
Calendar; Benefits of Getting Outdoors; Does It Pay to Fertilize Cool-Season Pasture?; Spring Turnout to Pasture; First Interstate Bank Awarded FIB Foundation Grant of $2500 to Holt County 4-H Foundation
April 28, 2024
Calendar; Choosing the Right Toy for Your Child; Net Farm Income impacts Net Worth Growth; Heifer Harmony, Optimal Management for Heifers in the Feedlot; Holt County 4-H Communications Event News Release; Holt County 4-H Council Senior Scholarship News Release

April 21, 2024
Calendar; Preventing High Blood Pressure; Thin Stand Alfalfa Options; All About Cold Frames; Calving Records 101

April 14, 2024
Calendar; Organization Is Key to Morning Routine; Fertilizer Recommendation Support Tool to Digitize Crop Nutrient Management Launches Nationwide; Growing Peas; Considerations for Building Cow Inventories at Current Prices

April 7, 2024
Calendar; Exploring Our Heritage with Food; Starter Fertilizer - When is it Needed?; Planting Broccoli, Cabbage, and Cauliflower in the Home Garden; Best Practices for Needle Selection, Use and Care in Cattle Health

March 31, 2024
Calendar; Managing A Home When Everyone Works; How Does Soil Life Contribute to Soil Health?; How to Transplant Small Trees; Health Guts Make Healthy Cattle

March 24, 2024
Calendar; Families Should Set Guidelines to Ensure Quality Studying; Creating Raised Bed Planters; Fertilizing Cool-Season Grass; Chasing the Elusive Second Calf; Land and Leasing Webinar to Cover Cash Rents, Landlord-Tenant Issues for 2024

March 17, 2024
Calendar; Parents Can Be Positive Examples When Teaching Children Honesty; Selection and Care of the Easter Lily; Vitamin A Levels at Calving can have a Big Impact on Calf Health

March 10, 2024
Calendar; Laughter - Is it the Best Medicine?; Winter Survival in Alfalfa; Paying Family Members on the Farm or Ranch; Grazing Management Following Wildfire

March 3, 2024
Calendar; School Success Requires Family Commitment; Frost Seedling or Interseeding Legume; Maple Syrup Production; Tips for Managing Calving in Muddy Conditions; Managing and Developing Young Beef Bulls; News Release - Learn, Launch, Interact Event to Kick Off 2024 TAPS Competitions

February 25, 2024
Calendar; Helping Children Learn About Kindness; Pasture Lease Consideration; Winter Hay Worries; Managing and Developing Young Beef Bulls

February 18, 2024
Calendar; Help Children Explore Their Curiosity; Yard and Garden: Hardwood Cuttings; Inventorying Remaining Forage Supply; Bull Evaluation & Selection

February 11, 2024
Calendar; The Hands of 4-H; One-Participant 401(k): Saving For Retirement And Reducing Taxes; Keys To a Prosperous Start for Newborn Calves; News Release - ARC/PLC Program Workshop for Ag Producers Scheduled in O’Neill

February 4, 2024
Calendar; Help Children Develop a Sense of Responsibility; Proper Time to Prune Shrubs; Tips for Dealing with Wet, Muddy Winter Conditions in Cattle Feedyards
January 28, 2024
Calendar; Cold Snap, Snap a Photo; Proper Time to Prune Trees; Guide to Pruning Equipment; Pasture Lease Considerations

January 21, 2024
Calendar; Vinegar. . . What Is It?; How to Clean and Disinfect Plant Containers; Winter Garden Tasks; Heifer Percent Mature Body Weight at Breeding; What Does It Mean for Pregnancy Rates and Calf Performance

January 14, 2024
Calendar; Does Birth Order Make a Difference?; Building and Caring for a Terrarium; USDA 'Hardiness' Zone Sees Few Changes for Most of Nebraska; Finding a Balance Between Biggest and Best: Moving a Cowherd Toward Optimum Productivity
January 7, 2024
Calendar; Using, Not Abusing, Timeouts for Kids; African Violet Care; Testing and Feeding Tobacco-Brown Hay and Silage; Using Bad Hay and Silage

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