RHDV2 is Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease Virus affecting rabbits. It is being found in wild rabbits and then spreading to domestic rabbits. Symptoms include: loss of appetite, lethargy, high fever, seizures, jaundice, bleeding from nose, mouth, or rectum, difficulty breathing, and sudden death. It can be spread orally, through the nasal, or ocular exposure to the virus, or by blood-feeding insects. To help protect your rabbits this summer limit the time they are outside roaming freely in your yard where they could come in contact with wild rabbits or mosquitos. Best practice is to have rabbits housed indoors.
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Sheridan County 4-H is having our annual 4-H Beef, Goat, & Sheep Progress Show on June 12, 2021. The show is open to all 4-H and FFA members ages 8-18 as of January 1 of current year. Youth ages 5-7 may participate non-competitively and with animals under 350 pounds. Participating in the Progress Show gives youth an opportunity to practice showing before county fairs.
Come on out and have some fun learning.
The 4S Goat Expo would like to extend their scholarship to young goat producers in the state of Nebraska again this year. This scholarship is open to Seniors in High school and Freshman in college. The deadline for this scholarship is August 20, 2021. Thank you for your help reaching these youth
Dawes County 4-H if having their annual 4-H Beef, Goat, & Sheep Progress Show on June 19, 2021. The show is open to all 4-H and FFA members ages 8-18 as of January 1 of current year. Youth ages 5-7 may participate non-competitively and with animals under 350 pounds. Participating in the Progress Show gives youth an opportunity to practice showing before county fairs.
Make your summer fun and filled with learning. This summer Sheridan 4-H has a great lineup of workshops to make the summer days so much more fun. Cooking, Felting, Cake Decorating, Design Camp, Tractor Safety Braid Reins/Horse Face Cover, Woodworking Working, Progress Show, Floral Design, Jump Into Summer, Resin Jeeelry Workshop, Rabbit & Poultry Clinic, Horsesho Windchime/PinWithdow Screen Workshop, Homade Clock Virtural Workshop, Basket Weaing, Stained Class, Genealogy, Sewing Sleepover, Southwester Bellbotttoms/Aztec Pillow. click on the word Flyer to see explaination of each workshop.
HAY SPRINGS JUMP INTO SUMMER!
Monday, June 7
9 am to 4 pm
Fee: $15
Ages: 5+
Instructors: multiple 4-H volunteers
Location: Hay Springs School
Description: Youth above the age of 8 will have an opportunity to design their day. They will learn a variety of skills while learning the elements of art – line, marbled clay coasters, leather work, cake decorating, tiered wood slice shelf, and sewing a quilt of valor. Clover Buds will experience a variety of activities in Healthy Living, Consumer and Family Science, STEM, and more! Please fill out separate registration form.
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Nebraska Extension to host Inaugural Specialty Crop Conference & Trade Show
June 11, 2021
Nebraska Extension, in partnership with the Nebraska Department of Agriculture, will host the Nebraska Specialty Crop Conference on November 9-10, 2021, on Nebraska’s Innovation Campus.
Nebraska Extension field day for management of Palmer amaranth in corn
June 9, 2021
Growers, crop consultants and extension educators interested in management of atrazine/glyphosate-resistant Palmer amaranth are encouraged to attend Nebraska Extension's field day, supported by the Nebraska Corn Board, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. June 30 near Carleton.
Wheat stem sawfly emergence – field notes from early June
June 7, 2021
Lincoln, Neb. —The wheat stem sawfly has begun emergence throughout the High Plains. Observations from several locations – the High Plains Ag Lab (HPAL) near Sidney, Neb., the U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) Research Station near Akron, Colo., and as far east as Deuel County, Neb. – indicate very high populations of wheat stem sawfly in wheat fields.
2021 summer stocker/yearling meeting and tour set for June 30
June 4, 2021
Nebraska Extension will host a summer meeting and tour focused on stocker/yearling systems on June 30 near Nenzel, Nebraska.
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