Nebraska Extension Scotts Bluff County

Husker Harvest Days Virtual Experience

Husker Harvest Days along with Nebraska Extension invites Nebraskans to participate in the Farm Progress Virtual Experience Sept. 15-17, where the usual best of show exhibitors will merge into a powerhouse virtual experience.

Join the Virtual Experience

Local Interest

Leading Farm and Ranch Employees Virtual Seminar Series to be Held in December 2020

Finding, hiring and retaining quality employees are major challenges for agricultural business in Nebraska. Competition for the available workforce comes from area industries, and the labor market is tight.

Nebraska Extension will host a virtual seminar series in December (Dec. 8, 11, 15 and 18) designed to help agricultural employers learn techniques and leadership practices to help motivate and empower employees.

Dr. Bob Milligan, Senior Consultant with Dairy Strategies LLC and Professor Emeritus from Cornell University, will lead the seminar. Topics will include:

Virtual training for ag professionals on crisis, suicidal behavior offered

An upcoming online training for agricultural professionals will teach individuals how to recognize and respond to potential signs of crisis and suicidal behavior.

Farming and ranching can be stressful in the best of times. Financial worries, unpredictable weather, unpredictable commodity prices, plant pests, livestock diseases and isolation all contribute to a producer’s anxiety. And now Nebraska’s rural communities and families are coping with the unpredictability and imposed isolation produced by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Nebraska Extension to Host BeefWatch Webinar Series

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension will host the 2020 BeefWatch Webinar Series. The webinars will take place weekly beginning on Tuesday, October 6 at 8:00 pm central time.

The BeefWatch Webinar series is designed to highlight management strategies in grazing, nutrition, reproduction, and economics to increase cow/calf and stocker production efficiency and profitability. Each session will feature industry experts and plenty of opportunity to interact to get your questions answered.

Each webinar will begin at 8:00 PM Central Time.

Topics and speakers are as follows:

Master Gardener Training Available in October 2020 via Zoom

Extension Educator David Lott will be offering Master Gardener training via Zoom in October. Pre-registration is required for each class at https://go.unl.edu/nebrgardener.

Dates & Topics:

Web-based Sessions for Early Childhood Professionals Beginning Oct 5, 2020

The Fit and Healthy Kids Series programs consist of 1-hour web-based live or recorded sessions. Sessions are offered once a month for 6 months during the school year. A team of University of Nebraska Extension Professionals offer the Fit and Healthy Kids series online programming to help increase the use of best practices in caring for and educating young children across the state.

Need FREE continuing education hours? Don't want to travel? Pull up a comfortable chair and join us on the web!

More information and a registration link is available at FIT AND HEALTHY WEBINARS.

PANHANDLE PERSPECTIVES: Windrow grazing annual forages to extend the grazing season

Aaron Berger, Extension Educator In many areas of Nebraska, drought conditions have resulted in reduced forage production on rangeland and pasture. This is resulting in a shortage of feed for many producers and a need for forage between now and when cornstalks are available for grazing. Windrow grazing annual forages allows producers to cut the crop at an optimum time for quality and increase harvest efficiency through strip grazing the windrows.

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