Extension educators discuss management strategies for heat stressed forage plants and grasshoppers in alfalfa, and getting prepped for corn silage harvest this fall.
For the week ending July 25, 2021, corn silking was 6% ahead of the five-year average, and soybean blooming, 8% ahead.
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Hosted by Samantha Teten and Jackson Stansell — graduate students in UNL's Department of Biological Systems Engineering and Nebraska Extension Digital Agriculture team members — FarmBits Podcast is a weekly series highlighting new innovations and trends in digital agriculture through interviews with academic experts, farmers and industry specialists.
Kristine White, CEO of Spornado, discusses how her company is providing predictive fungal disease insights with its Spornado Sampler, an in-field device that captures airborne fungal spores above the crop canopy.
Hosted by Samantha Teten and Jackson Stansell — graduate students in UNL's Department of Biological Systems Engineering and Nebraska Extension Digital Agriculture team members — FarmBits Podcast is a weekly series highlighting new innovations and trends in digital agriculture through interviews with academic experts, farmers and industry specialists.
Ethan Noll, of AgPartners Cooperative, Inc., offers his perspective on the digital tools that AgPartners is leveraging to enhance crop protection services for their customers.
The final field day for No-Till on the Plains will be hosted at Rogers Memorial Farm in Lincoln, where several university classes conduct research on cover crops, fertilizer application rates and more.
Before getting involved in the Nebraska Land Link Program, learn more about why it's important to formulate your personal expectations for a business partnership.
Corn with hail damage from a July 9, 2021 storm, 10 miles west of Hemingford.
Following identification of southern rust, Phytophthora root and stem rot, and frogeye leaf spot in areas throughout the state, producers are encouraged to scout and be prepared to apply the appropriate fungicide treatments.
A spring pasture mix of oats and ryegrass. (Photo by Jerry Volesky)
This week, extension educators review summer weed control strategies for alfalfa, the benefits of using oats as a fall forage crop, plus the latest information on the 2021 Nebraska Grazing Conference.
Figure 1: Weed Guide customers across the USA (data from UNL Marketplace, 2019). (Photo by Stevan Knezevic)
Producers and other agricultural professionals are invited to participate in an anonymous survey about how they utilize Nebraska Extension's Guide for Weed, Disease, and Insect Management in Nebraska.
