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Weed Management

Wiping Paraquat as a Rescue or Salvage Treatment in Sugarbeet

To manage glyphosate-resistant Palmer in low-growing crops like sugarbeet, wipers filled with paraquat can be adapted by using the right speed, wiper height and wiper saturation.

Extension Events

Drought-affected field — This year's program will assist producers with making decisions for the 2023 growing season, as well as renewing their private pesticide applicator licenses.

Confronting Cropping Challenges Program to be Offered in November and December 2022

This year's program will provide growers with extension insights on corn tar spot, drift management and drought-related considerations such as irrigation, and herbicide and nutrient carryover.

Farmers and Ranchers College Returns Dec. 8

The keynote speaker, Virginia Tech Professor Emeritus David Kohl, will share his insights on the current state and future of the global ag economy.

CropWatch Podcast

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This week, we speak with UNL Soybean Extension Plant Pathologist Dr. Dylan Mangel about soybean cyst nematode, including how to sample and best practices for managing SCN if it's present.

Weather Outlook

Weekly Agricultural Weather Update — Nov. 15, 2022

The current outlook for November includes rainfall for eastern Nebraska and snow for the west on Thanksgiving, followed by a potentially statewide snow event beginning on Black Friday.

Forage Production

Pasture and Forage Minute: Cattle Compaction in Cropland, Pasture Soil Sampling

Extension educators address concerns about cropland compaction and reduced yields from grazing crop residues and taking soil samples in pastures and hay fields.

Pasture and Forage Minute: Grazing Winter Range, Fertilized Cornstalks

Extension educators discuss ways to graze winter pastures and fertilized corn residue fields without risking livestock health or nutrition.

IANR & Extension

Research project team — Members of the Field-Nets research team pose in a soybean field on East Campus with their millimeter wave radios with phased-array antennas. The researchers (from left) are Santosh Pitla, Qiang Liu, Yufeng Ge, Christos Argyropoulos and Mehmet Can Vuran. (Photo by Craig Chandler, University Communication and Marketing)

Project Aims to Boost Ag Tech Through Improved Field Connectivity

A Nebraska research team is designing a next-generation wireless network for agricultural fields that would catalyze an array of digital farming technologies and buoy the businesses of countless farmers.

IANR Celebrates Third Consecutive Year of Record-breaking Research Funding in 2022

Researchers in all disciplines of study across the institute received funding for a wide variety of projects to advance agriculture and natural resources resilience across Nebraska and around the world.

Distillers' grain — Erin Ehnle Brown/realagstock (Photo courtesy Center for Agricultural Profitability)

The Impact of Low Stocks-to-use Ratio and the Ukraine-Russia Conflict on the Distillers-to-Corn Price Ratio

Department of Ag Economics Assistant Professor Elliott Dennis assesses the distiller grains market in Nebraska using weekly FOB bid level prices for DDG, MWDG and WDG from ethanol plants.

Geese on lake — Geese silhouetted against a Nebraska sunset. (CropWatch file photo)

Hunting Leases and Legal Considerations

Extension Educator Jessica Groskopf and Ag Law Specialist Dave Aiken review Nebraska recreation and agrotourism laws, ways to mitigate liability, working with multiple tenants and developing hunting lease agreements.

Crop Reports & AgNews

Crop Progress: Corn, Sorghum Harvest Near Finish Line

Harvest reached 95% complete for corn and 93% for sorghum on Nov. 13, and winter wheat condition remained stable.

USDA Provides Nearly $24M Boost for Beginning Farmers and Ranchers

The funds will support projects that assist farmers and ranchers with managing capital, acquiring and managing land, and learning effective business and farming practices.

Nebraska Crop Production as of Nov. 1

As of Nov. 1, Nebraska crop production of corn, sorghum, soybean and sugarbeets was down 16-30%, while potato production was up 3% from last year.

Assistance Available for Nebraska Farmers and Ranchers Impacted by Wildfire

Nebraska landowners now have until May 31, 2023 to apply for USDA NRCS assistance with wildfire recovery efforts on cropland or rangeland.

USDA NASS to Collect 2022 Crop Production and Stocks Data

Results of the the survey will be published in the Crop Production Annual Summary and the quarterly Grain Stocks report on Jan. 12 on USDA NASS's site.