Dave Ostdiek Communication/Technology Associate
The Panhandle Research and Extension Center has embarked on a partnership with a family farm corporation in Scotts Bluff County, Western Farms LLC, to conduct scientific research on growing industrial hemp for seed production in the Panhandle.
The public-private joint venture will take place in Scottsbluff and is titled “Evaluation of Hemp Seed Production in Greenhouse Environment in Western Nebraska.”
An upcoming Nebraska Extension workshop will help farmers develop marketing plans for 2020.
“Risk and Reward: Using Crop Insurance and Marketing to Manage Farm Survival” will be presented Scottsbluff, North Platte, West Point and Clay Center in January and February. The Scottsbluff workshop will be held on January 23, from 9 a.m. -2 p.m., at the Panhandle Research & Extension Center, 4502 Ave I. To register, call 308-632-1230.
Extension economists will discuss the role of farm location and yield/price relations in making informed grain marketing and crop insurance decisions.
Sponsored by Nebraska Extension, the programs will be held at six sites this January and include pesticide applicator recertification training at each. A January 7 Clinic will be held at the Gering Civic Center.
Robert M. Harveson, Extension Plant Pathologist
Panhandle R&E Center, Scottsbluff
The Panhandle Research and Extension Center (REC) was begun in 1910 with the establishment of the Scotts Bluff Experimental Substation.
Although the Department of Plant Pathology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) was not formally established until 1920, a decade later, plant pathology had a significant presence in western Nebraska even before the Substation in Scottsbluff was created.
The Landlord/Tenant Cash Rent Workshop for 2020 and Beyond workshop is scheduled for Tuesday, January 28, 2020, 2:00 p.m., at the Panhandle Research and Extension Center, 4502 Ave. I, in Scottsbluff. Nebraska Extension’s upcoming workshop will provide the latest leasing, real estate and management information to operators, tenants and landowners in Scotts Bluff County.
Extension educators Austin Duerfeldt, Jim Jansen and Allan Vyhnalek have collaborated to develop a program that will address agricultural finance and the real estate market, negotiation skills and considerations for leases and strategies for farmland succession and communication.
