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New for 2023! Livestock-Related Custom Rates Report

Each year, many Nebraska farmers and ranchers inquire about prevailing rates paid for certain kinds of custom farm services. In addition to the regular biennial custom rates services survey and report, the Center for Agricultural Profitability launched a new survey that provides data for producers and operators that work closely with the livestock industry in Nebraska. View report here

Many houseplants thrive outside during summer, growing well with the brighter light intensity, but it will soon be time to bring them back indoors. Most plants grown as houseplants originated in the tropics, so nighttime temperatures dipping into the 40’s and 50’s F mean it’s time to bring them inside. Click here for the complete article.

For tiny green tomatoes developing on plants now, gardeners might wonder if this fruit will mature before frost.

Fruit development depends on tomato variety, day and nighttime temperatures, and amount of sunlight received between now and frost. And we don’t know when the first frost will be.

Below is the typical period of time a tomato needs from fruit set to maturity. Following that is an average range of days from flowering to maturity for other vegetables.

For tomatoes, according to Ward Upham at Kansas State University, the first 2 to 3 weeks after new fruit forms, growth is slow with slicing tomatoes reaching about the size of a golf ball.   

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Unveiling of Historic Knorr-Holden Plot Signboard

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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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