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Center pivot irrigation system watering a field

Published: June 19, 2020

Vegetative Growth Stage Irrigation, Is It Needed This Year?

Steve Melvin - Extension Educator Irrigated Cropping Systems

ET sensors in a field

Published: May 28, 2020

Is It Too Easy to Turn Irrigation Water On?

Steve Melvin - Extension Educator Irrigated Cropping Systems

pivot irrigation system operating in a corn field

Published: May 7, 2020

Center Pivot Safety, an Essential Part of a Satisfying and Profitable Year

Steve Melvin - Extension Educator Irrigated Cropping Systems

Snowpack on the Snowy Mountain Range that feeds the North Plate River system

Published: April 13, 2020

North Platte River Basin Snow Melt Runoff Update for 2020

Gary Stone - Extension Educator

Irrigated soybean in Perkins County, NE (2019).

Published: March 30, 2020

Seeding Practices and Nitrogen Management for Western Nebraska Soybean: What Matters and Why

Strahinja Stepanović - Former Extension Educator, Justin Richardson, Jovan Radojičić – Agronomy Student at the University of Belgrade-Serbia, Ognjen Zivkovic – Agronomy Student at the University of Belgrade-Serbia, Milica Bogdanovic - Agronomy Student at the University of Belgrade-Serbia

watering cornfield

Published: December 18, 2019

Crediting Essential Nutrients Applied in Irrigation Water

Charles Wortmann - Emeritus Extension Soil and Nutrient Management Specialist

Researchers with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will use the Arable Mark IOT device to record 40 variables in Nebraska farm fields as part of a research effort to improve data farmers use to determine whether they should irrigate.

Published: October 30, 2019

Researchers to Tackle Irrigation Decision-making with Help of USDA grant

Shawna Richter-Ryerson - Communications Associate in the School of Natural Resources

Water is flowing again at the tunnel entrance on the Gering-Fort Laramie and Goshen Irrigation Canal

Published: September 13, 2019

Update on North Platte River Valley Canal Irrigation System

Gary Stone - Extension Educator, Jessica Groskopf - Extension Educator for Agricultural Economics, David Ostdiek - Former Communications Specialist, Panhandle REC

Water is flowing again in the Gering-Fort Laramie and Goshen Irrigation Canal

Published: August 30, 2019

Water Flowing Again in the Gering-Fort Laramie and Goshen Irrigation Canal

Gary Stone - Extension Educator, Jessica Groskopf - Extension Educator for Agricultural Economics, David Ostdiek - Former Communications Specialist, Panhandle REC

Field of wheat in the Nebraska Panhandle

Published: August 28, 2019

UNL-TAPS Expanding To Include Winter Wheat Competition in the Panhandle

Krystle Rhoades - Former TAPS Program Coordinator

Center pivot irrigating late-season corn

Published: August 23, 2019

Scheduling the Last Irrigations in a Year with Delayed Crop Maturity

Steve Melvin - Extension Educator Irrigated Cropping Systems

Corn growing on the University of NebraskaâLincolnâs East Campus. A new Nebraska study has quantified the benefits of irrigation among nine U.S. crops by analyzing yields from 1950 to 2015. (Photo by Craig Chandler/University Communication)

Published: August 13, 2019

Gap Growing Between Irrigated, Rainfed Crop Yields

Scott Schrage - University Communication

Site of the tunnel collapse in the Goshen-Gering-Ft-Laramie Canal

Published: August 7, 2019

August 12 Canal Repair Update Meeting

Bill Todd updates Market Journal views on the irrigation canal collapse in western Nebraska.

Published: August 2, 2019

Market Journal: Water Woes in Western Nebraska

An aerial view of the sink holes created by the July 17 tunnel collapse on the Gering-Fort Laramie/Goshen Irrigation District canal.

Published: July 26, 2019

Update on Efforts to Restore Water to North Platte River Valley Canal

Gary Stone - Extension Educator, Jessica Groskopf - Extension Educator for Agricultural Economics, David Ostdiek - Former Communications Specialist, Panhandle REC

Irrigation canal washout from tunnel collapse

Published: July 23, 2019

Wednesday A.M. Meeting to Focus on Prospects for Collapsed Irrigation Tunnel

David Ostdiek - Former Communications Specialist, Panhandle REC

Area of the North Platte River canal where the break occurred July 17.

Published: July 18, 2019

Growers in North Platte Valley Face Critical Water Loss with Canal Damage

Gary Stone - Extension Educator, Jessica Groskopf - Extension Educator for Agricultural Economics, David Ostdiek - Former Communications Specialist, Panhandle REC

Matt Stockton accepting the Oustanding Extension Program award on behalf of the UNL-TAPS team.

Published: July 15, 2019

UNL TAPS Receives Outstanding Extension Program Award

Matt Stockton - Agricultural Economist Krystle Rhoades - TAPS Program Coordinator

Figure 1. Corn in one of the irrigation research plots at the South Central Agricultural Lab was starting to show signs of stress Wednesday.

Published: July 11, 2019

Soil Water Content- and Soil Matric Potential-Based Irrigation Trigger Values for Different Soil Types

Suat Irmak – Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Pennsylvania State University

Combining corn

Published: June 18, 2019

Study: High Crop Yields Are Compatible with Prescribed Irrigation Levels