Panhandle Research and Extension Center

About the Panhandle Research and Extension District

Panhandle Center history; Agriculture in the Panhandle; Research Focus; Extension Focus; List of County-based offices; Contact information

Our People

Director's Insights from Dr. Jack Whittier

News

Sowing seeds of STEM success in western Nebraska

Farm Bill education sessions in Scottsbluff, Grant in January

2020 pesticide applicator training dates in western Nebraska

Multi-cooker class in January in Gering

'Risk and Reward' workshops on crop insurance, marketing coming to area in early 2020

Landlord-tenant cash rent workshops in Valentine, Hemingford, Scottsbluff

2020 Lambing, Kidding School is Jan. 25 at two sites

Quicken for farm-ranch record-keeping class Jan. 31 in Scottsbluff

Quickbooks basics class in Scottsbluff Feb. 1

Land Application Training Day Feb. 3 at Bridgeport

Chemigation training schedule for western Nebraska

Permanent repairs approved for Goshen/Gering-Ft. Laramie canal tunnel

Panhandle Soil Health Workshop planned in March

Panhandle staff recognized by IANR, Nebraska Extension, other organizations

Bob Harveson honored by American Phytopathological Society

New appointments: Community vitality educator in Sidney, 4-H assistant in Bridgeport

NET grant to fund subsurface drip irrigation system research

Panhandle Perspectives

• Did you know? The Panhandle Center was established more than a century ago
• UNL partners with Panhandle farm to research industrial hemp
• In five decades, Panhandle Center has had two plant pathologists
• Update on research into winter wheat fertility and protein
• Farmers' management decisions affect wheat stem sawfly populations
• Stress and young children
• Dry bean bacterial wilt - a pathogen of many colors
• Study sheds light on how pinto beans help reduce cholesterol
• 4-Hers learn leadership, civic engagement in Washington
• Scotch thistle - invasive species profile
• Paper on aquifer depletion relies on Nebraska expertise, experience
• Marestail: Invasive species in western Nebraska
• A new way to schedule irrigation for dry beans
• Technology helps check cooking time in new bean varieties
• The Panhandle Center plant disease diagnostic lab
• Service to Panhandle agriculture and extension honored
• The sunflower pathology working group
• What's all that noise? The realities of animal agriculture
• A century of science at experimental range in southern Sioux County

• Previous Panhandle Perspective articles

Crops

Nebraska Extension's CropWatch web site has answers to farmers' questions about crop varieties, fertilizer, irrigation, pest control, harvest and many other issues. Check out the main page or click below to go directly to sugarbeets, dry edible beans, wheat, or potatoes.

• Sugarbeets
• Dry Edible Beans
• Wheat
• Corn
• Variety testing results for sunflower, millet, pea

Beef

Nebraska Extension's Beef Cattle Production Website has research-based information about all facets of beef production; news about current trends; interactive decision-making tools; and calendars with learning opportunities

• UNL Beef Watch newsletter
• Controlling cheatgrass -- the cheatgrass challenge

The North Platte River:

Surface Water Irrigation Projects and Power Generation: A basic history of and information about the North Platte River U.S. Bureau of Reclamation projects '“ surface irrigation, power generation and other related irrigation and power generation projects '“ on the North Platte River drainage.

View the presentation by using the arrows below to advance the slides, or view the original presentation on Slideshare.

By Gary Stone, Extension Educator, Panhandle Research & Extension Center.