For more information, contact Erin Laborie, Engagement Zone 4 Extension Educator - Livestock Systems.

March 2025

In this Beef Update newsletter, you will find:

  • Private Applicator Trainings
  • Grass Tetany Prevention
  • New Weekly Video Series: Mineral Minute
  • Returning to the Farm Workshop Series
  • BQA/BQAT In-Person Trainings
  • Consider Securing Feed Supplies Now for Dry Conditions in 2025

February 2025

In this Beef Update newsletter, you will find:

  • Private Applicator Trainings
  • Midwest FEEDS Practicum
  • Feedlot Roundtables
  • Sign-up for Livestock Related Custom Rates Survey
  • Land Application Trainings
  • Women in Agriculture Conference
  • Returning to the Farm Workshop Series

If you need assistance developing gestation or lactation rations for your cows, please don't hesitate to reach out. Wishing you a successful calving and sale season ahead!

January 2025

In this Beef Update newsletter, you will find:

  • Colostrum: Supplements vs. Replacements
  • Sign-up for Livestock Related Custom Rates Survey
  • UNL Winter Stocker Tour features Darr Feedlot
  • Leaving a Lasting Legacy: A Succession Planning Series
  • Fundamentals of Feeding the Cow Webinar Series
  • Prescribed Fire Workshops
  • Women in Agriculture Conference

December 2024

In this Beef Update newsletter, you will find:

  • New Reporting Requirement Affects Many Agricultural Businesses
  • 2025 UNL Beef Cattle Research Report
  • Sign-up for Livestock Related Custom Rates Survey
  • Leaving a Lasting Legacy: A Succession Planning Series
  • Cow Clinics
  • Beef Cattle Technology Virtual Tradeshow
  • Drone Education in Southwest Nebraska

November 2024

In this Beef Update newsletter, you will find:

  • Farm Succession & Estate Planning Resources
  • Fundamentals of Feeding the Cow Webinar Series
  • Sign-up for Livestock Related Custom Rates Survey
  • Beef Cattle Technology Virtual Tradeshow
  • How Grazing Corn Residue Affects the Soil
  • Cover Crop Grazing Conference
  • Risk Management for Livestock Producers
  • Cow Clinics

October 2024

In this Beef Update newsletter, you will find:

  • Crop Residue Exchange
  • Hay Probes Available at Extension Office
  • BQA/BQAT Training in Curtis
  • Husker Nutrition Conference
  • Cornstalk Grazing Fundamentals, Leases, and Agronomic Impacts Webinar
  • Knowing, Growing, and Grazing Grass Webinar
  • Fundamentals of Feeding the Cow Webinar

September 2024

In this Beef Update newsletter, you will find:

  • New Nebraska Mesonet Website
  • Free Well Water Testing
  • Determining What's Fair in Cow Leasing Webinar
  • Nebraska Youth Beef Leadership Symposium
  • Upcoming BQA/BQAT Trainings
  • Knowing, Growing, and Grazing Grass Webinar Series

Nebraska Mesonet

The Nebraska Mesonet is a collection of 63 high quality, standardized weather and soil observation stations located throughout Nebraska.

August 2024

In this Beef Update newsletter, you will find:

  • Farm Succession & Estate Planning Resources
  • Landlord/Tenant Cash Rent Workshops
  • Fall Grazing School
  • Beef for Troops
  • Silage Management Resources
  • Nebraska Grazing Conference
  • Gudmundsen Sandhills Laboratory Open House
  • Husker Harvest Days