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

News

• Controlling cheatgrass -- the cheatgrass challenge
• On-line tool for specialty crop growers, beekeepers to avoid chemical drift
• Summer forages following a failed wheat crop
• Nathan Rice appointed 4-H Youth Development Educator
• Rebuilding fences after flood or blizzard damage
• NET grant to fund subsurface drip irrigation system research
• Three Panhandle residents elected to Nebraska Hall of Ag Achievement
•  Preliminary farm real estate market survey results for Panhandle
• Dry bean variety trial results available at CropWatch

Panhandle Perspectives

• 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
• New cowpea diseases in 2018
• Panhandle Pride, new Great Northern bean variety, available
• Panhandle team hopes visit to Washington opens doors
• 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
• Subsurface drip irrigation system studied
• A century of science at experimental range in southern Sioux County

• Previous Panhandle Perspective articles

Director's Insights from Dr. Jack Whittier

• June 2019
• May 2019
• April 2019
• March 2019
• February 2019
• January 2019
• December 2018
• Nov. 2018

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

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