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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

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