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Published: June 14, 2019

Workshops Focus on Irrigation Scheduling to Save Money, Water Even in Wet Years

Planting plots in the 2019 UNL-TAPS program

Published: May 30, 2019

Hybrid Selection Sets TAPS Contests Up for a Unique Year

Krystle Rhoades - Former TAPS Program Coordinator

Xin Qiao (left), irrigation and water management specialist and principal investigator, and Jack Whittier, Panhandle Center Director of Research and Extension, accept the award from the Nebraska Environmental Trust fund to establish SDI research with livestock effluent.

Published: April 26, 2019

NET Awards Grant for Subsurface Drip Irrigation System with Feedlot

David Ostdiek - Former Communications Specialist, Panhandle REC

Growers and industry represenatives gather at the kick-off gathering for the 2019 UNL-TAPS competitions

Published: April 3, 2019

UNL-TAPS Participation Increasing in 2019

Krystle Rhoades - Former TAPS Program Coordinator

Flooded center pivot east of Schuyler (Photo by Aaron Nygren)

Published: March 25, 2019

Management Recommendations for Irrigation Equipment Affected by Flooding

Aaron Nygren - Extension Educator, Steve Melvin - Extension Educator Irrigated Cropping Systems, Troy Ingram - Former Extension Educator

Chart of grain yield and crop water use efficiency for chickpeas and field peas under dryland, deficit, and full irrigation.

Published: March 21, 2019

Yield and Water Use of Field Peas and Chickpeas Under Irrigation

Strahinja Stepanović - Former Extension Educator, Nemanja Arsenijevic – Agronomy Student at the University of Belgrade-Serbia, Zaim Ugljic – Agronomy Student at the University of Belgrade-Serbia

Discussing irrigation management at the annual UNL-TAPS banquet were (L-R): UNL-TAPS competitors Carla McCullough, Roric Paulman, and Tim Franklin, and Gerald Franklin. (Photo by Amy Kremen)

Published: February 7, 2019

Central Plains Irrigation Association Conference to Spotlight UNL TAPS

Chuck Burr - Crops and Water Extension Educator, Daran Rudnick - Former Extension Irrigation Management Specialist Krystle Rhoades - TAPS Program Coordinator

Cover of the UNL IANR Growing magazine

Published: November 30, 2018

IANR's Growing Focuses on Water Stewardship, Research

Market Journal video cover

Published: November 30, 2018

Market Journal Goes to Extension's Weed School

Multi-state map of counties showing agricultural value of irrigation water per acre ($/ac) in 2007.

Published: November 14, 2018

Cornhusker Economics: Putting a Dollar Value on Irrigation in the High Plains

Pivot Irrigation

Published: November 8, 2018

Checklist for Winterizing Your Center Pivot

Troy Ingram - Former Extension Educator

SDI Irrigation at the Panhandle Research and Extension Center

Published: November 2, 2018

Subsurface Drip Irrigation Being Tested at Panhandle Center

David Ostdiek - Former Communications Specialist, Panhandle REC Xin Qiao - Irrigation and Water Management Specialist

Soil water measuring guage.

Published: August 16, 2018

Field Days to Feature Irrigation Scheduling Equipment Demos

Steve Melvin - Extension Educator Irrigated Cropping Systems

Pie chart showing entities responsible for maintaining irrigation systems as part of cash leases

Published: August 16, 2018

2018 Cash Lease Adjustments on Irrigation Equipment for Cropland Rental Arrangements in Nebraska

Jim Jansen - Agricultural Economist, Jeff Stokes - Professor and Hanson-Clegg-Allen Chair in Agricultural Banking and Finance

Center pivot irrigating late season field of corn.

Published: August 10, 2018

How to Schedule the Last Few Irrigations of the Season

Steve Melvin - Extension Educator Irrigated Cropping Systems

Rezaul Mahmood (left), co-leader of the GRAINEX project, talks with a student and co-leader Eric Rappin (right) of Western Kentucky University.

Published: July 16, 2018

Husker-led Research Team to Examine Irrigation's Role in Precipitation

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

Youth at Youth Agronomy Field Day

Published: June 28, 2018

Agronomy Youth Field Day Aug. 8 at Curtis

Kathy Burr - Extension Educator

Irrigation in corn near a cattle feedlot with cattle

Published: June 27, 2018

Can I Irrigate Animal Manures On Growing Crops?

Rick Koelsch - Livestock Environmental Engineer

ETgage

Published: May 23, 2018

Take Time to Set Up Nebraska Ag Water Management Equipment

Suat Irmak – Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, Aaron Nygren - Extension Educator, Randy Pryor - Extension Educator, Jenny Brhel - Extension Educator

CropWatch Graphic

Published: May 9, 2018

Irrigating Alfalfa

Bruce Anderson - Emeritus Extension Forage Specialist