Crop Tech Cafe: Know your crop, know your tech, know your bottom line… feeding you agronomic information for your farm in southeast Nebraska: Page 11

Nebraska Extension’s Expertise and Personnel Directory

The Smith-Lever Act of 1914 provided federal support for land-grant universities to establish Cooperative Extension Services. Cooperative Extension was originally designed to bring vocational, agricultural, and home economics learning opportunities to all residents. Today Nebraska Extension (formerly called Cooperative Extension) brings University of Nebraska expertise and research in nine priority focus areas of impact directly […]

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Crop Inputs & Cost of Production Workshop – Nov. 10 in Beatrice

Nebraska Extension will present a live workshop covering 2022 inputs and cost of production for crop producers from 2 to 4 p.m. Nov. 10 at the Gage County Extension Office, 1115 W. Scott St., in Beatrice. Crops and agricultural economics extension educators will cover the forces that are driving input costs and commodity prices, discuss […]

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The Nebraska Mesonet: Weather Stations and Much More

What do you think about when you hear or read the word weather? In my role as an agronomist or more specifically as the Water and Integrated Cropping Systems Extension Educator for the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, I think of complexity and integration. Of the over 500 stakeholder calls I have received this year, weather or […]

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Turkey Creek Watershed Receives Funding to Improve Water Quality

Acting State Conservationist John Wilson announced the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) is accepting applications for the National Water Quality Initiative. The goal of this initiative is to improve water quality in three impaired watersheds located in eastern Nebraska. Interested participants have until Nov. 19, 2021, to apply. The selected watersheds are: Bazile Creek […]

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Saline County Extension Board seeking new member

Nebraska Extension in Saline County is seeking Extension Board candidates through an open nomination process to serve a 3-year term from January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2024. The current Extension Board opening is for Saline County residents in either the Wilber, Swan Creek, or DeWitt townships. Please complete our short application if you are […]

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Using CropScape, the Online Cropland Data Layer

Each year satellite imagery and ground truthing are combined to create a geospatial data layer that reveal which crop was grown on each field throughout the United States. This annual United States Department of Agriculture National Agricultural Statistics Service (USDA-NASS) analysis and resulting map is called the Cropland Data Layer (CDL). The CDL provides an […]

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Soil sample for nematodes after soybean harvest

Soybean cyst nematodes (SCN) are a plant-parasitic roundworm that attack soybeans in Saline, Jefferson, and Gage counties. The pest is not new or unfamiliar to area farmers and agronomists. However, sometimes we get too comfortable with old issues. As a reminder, SCN is the #1 yield-grabbing pest in U.S. soybean production. Soybean cyst nematodes or […]

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