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Farm equipment chops and loads corn residue at sunset, with tractors and a forage harvester working through a dusty field after harvest.

Published: December 3, 2025

60 Harvests: Changes I Have Seen

Tom Hoegemeyer - Former Adjunct Professor of Practice

Holstein cattle graze a grassy field beside a mature soybean field ready for harvest.

Published: November 3, 2025

Pasture and Forage Minute: Late Fall Rye Planting, Soybean Residue for Forage

Todd Whitney - Extension Educator, Ben Beckman - Extension Educator

A collage of four images showing soil health farmers Paula and Tom Peterson from Waverly, Nebraska — the couple standing together in a cover crop field, a tractor cutting hay, a green soybean field, and cattle grazing on pasture.

Published: October 28, 2025

Soil Health Stories: Paula and Tom Peterson — Stewarding the Land for Generations

Christina NoKu - UNL Environmental Science Graduate Student, Rylie Carter - UNL Animal Science Undergraduate Student, Zack Gaffney - UNL Agronomy Undergraduate Student, Carolina Córdova - Department of Agronomy and Horticulture Assistant Professor and Statewide Soil Health Specialist

Close-up of cereal rye ‘Elbon’ on the left and winter wheat on the right growing in dry, cracked soil at the Eastern Nebraska Research, Extension and Education Center as plants mature.

Published: October 8, 2025

Selecting the Right Winter Small Grain Cover Crop This Fall

Katja Koehler-Cole - Extension Educator, Andrea Basche – Associate Professor, David Scoby - Laboratory Research Manager, Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, Ben Beckman - Extension Educator, Vesh R. Thapa - Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Agronomy and Horticulture

Published: October 2, 2025

Nitrogen for Corn: N Credits — How Much?

A Six-Part Series Exploring Key Nitrogen Management Concepts for Corn Producers

Richard Ferguson - Extension Soil Fertility Specialist, Guillermo Balboa - Nutrient Management and Digital Agriculture, Javed Iqbal - Extension Nutrient Management and Water Quality Specialist, Nicolás Cafaro La Menza – Cropping Systems Specialist, Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, Carolina Córdova - Department of Agronomy and Horticulture Assistant Professor and Statewide Soil Health Specialist, Bijesh Maharjan - Extension Soil and Nutrient Management Specialist

Collage showing wheat stem maggot damage in corn: close-up of a larva on a corn stem, a row of young corn plants in residue, and mature plants with delayed ear development. Text overlay reads ‘Tracking Wheat Stem Maggot Damage in Corn.'

Published: September 12, 2025

Wheat Stem Maggot in Corn: Field Observations and Follow-Up

Justin McMechan - Crop Protection and Cropping Systems Specialist, Aaron Nygren - Extension Educator, Talon Mues - Extension Educator, Jenny Brhel - Extension Educator

Sorghum plants dominate a tall cover crop mix in August 2024.

Published: September 11, 2025

How Do Cover Crops Designed for Game Birds Affect Soil Health?

Katja Koehler-Cole - Extension Educator, Nathan Pflueger - Precision Ag Coordinator, Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever

fall armyworm with distinctive white and dark green stripes and dots across body

Published: September 5, 2025

Fall Armyworms in Pastures, Alfalfa, Small Grains, Cover Crops and Lawns

Jenny Brhel - Extension Educator, Robert Wright - Extension Entomologist, Melissa Bartels - Former Extension Educator, Nathan Mueller - USDA NRCS, State Soil Health Specialist, Ben Beckman - Extension Educator, Brad Schick - Former Extension Educator, Daren Redfearn - Associate Professor Agronomy | Updated by: Matheus Ribeiro - Assistant Extension Educator, | Updated by: David Wangila - Extension Educator, | Updated by: Jenny Brhel - Extension Educator

Brian Brhel stands in a harvested cornfield with cattle grazing on residue under a clear sky.

Published: August 28, 2025

Balancing Soil Health and Cash Flow: Lessons from Regenerative Farmer Brian Brhel

Soil Health Program Launches New Soil Health Stories Series

Chirstine Noku - Undergraduate Student, UNL Environmental Science , Brian Brhel - Nebraska Soil Health Advanced Producer, Katja Koehler-Cole - Extension Educator, Carolina Córdova - Department of Agronomy and Horticulture Assistant Professor and Statewide Soil Health Specialist

Tractor harvesting corn silage with a forage chopper blowing chopped material into a wagon as plants mature.

Published: August 18, 2025

Pasture and Forage Minute: Corn Silage Kernel Processing, Cover Crop Grazing and Pasture Weeds

Jerry Volesky - Nebraska Extension Range and Forage Specialist, Ben Beckman - Extension Educator, Todd Whitney - Extension Educator

Side-by-side comparison of soybean growing in two cover crop systems — left image shows soybeans emerging through thick cereal rye residue with minimal weed pressure; right image shows soybeans in a no-cover system with high weed presence between rows.

Published: July 30, 2025

Managing Pigweeds with Cover Crops: What We’ve Learned from 30 Years of Data

Vipin Kumar - Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, Mandeep Singh - Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, Resham Thapa - Assistant Research Professor of Climate Smart Agronomy, Tennessee State University, Ankit Yadav - Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, Humberto Blanco - Professor of Soil Science, Sam Wortman - Assistant Professor of Agronomy, Saleh Taghvaeian - Biological Systems Engineering Associate Professor, Amit Jhala - Professor and Associate Department Head, Department of Agronomy and Horticulture

Fall seeded cover crop field

Published: July 17, 2025

Glyphosate Alternatives for Terminating Cereal Rye Before and After Soybean Planting

Jose H. S. de Sanctis - UNL Department of Agronomy and Horticulture Graduate Student, Amit Jhala - Professor and Associate Department Head, Department of Agronomy and Horticulture

side by side comparison of cover crop fields in summer

Published: July 10, 2025

Summer Cover Crop Potential in Eastern Nebraska

Grace E. Pacheco - Former MS student, Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, Vesh R. Thapa - Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, Bridget McKinley - Former MS student, Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, Andrea Basche – Associate Professor, Katja Koehler-Cole - Extension Educator, Amanda Easterly - Research Associate Professor, Paul Jasa - Former Extension Engineer, Retired

Meeting participants seated in a U-shaped table arrangement during the Shell Creek Watershed workshop, discussing conservation successes and future research needs

Published: June 27, 2025

The Shell Creek Watershed Improvement Group: A Nationally Recognized Success

Farmer Leaders Improving Water Quality Through Coordinated Conservation

Eduardo Marchesini - Research Scholar, Department of Agronomy and Horticulture , Tauana Ferreira de Almeida - Agronomy Graduate Research Assistant, Andrea Basche – Associate Professor, Shivendra Srivastava – Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tirthankar Roy - Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Attendees gather around a roller crimper during a live demonstration at ENREEC.

Published: June 26, 2025

Mechanical Termination, Maximum Impact: Best Practices for Roller Crimping Cover Crops

Katja Koehler-Cole - Extension Educator, Aaron Nygren - Extension Educator

a row of underdeveloped corn next to normal row

Published: June 12, 2025

Wheat Stem Maggot: A Cover Crop to Corn Pest

Justin McMechan - Crop Protection and Cropping Systems Specialist, Jenny Brhel - Extension Educator, Aaron Nygren - Extension Educator, Julie Peterson - Extension Entomologist, Travis J. Prochaska - Extension Educator, Ron Seymour - Extension Educator, Talon Mues - Extension Educator

cover crops in field

Published: June 5, 2025

New Educational Resources Address Common Cover Crop Questions in Nebraska

Vesh R. Thapa - Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, Grace E. Pacheco - Former MS student, Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, Bridget McKinley - Former MS student, Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, Andrea Basche – Associate Professor, Katja Koehler-Cole - Extension Educator

side by side comparison of Yankee rye and Elbon rye

Published: April 24, 2025

Root Biomass of Fall-planted Cover Crops in Northeast Nebraska

Vesh R. Thapa - Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, Bridget McKinley - Former MS student, Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, Andrea Basche – Associate Professor, Grace E. Pacheco - Former MS student, Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, Katja Koehler-Cole - Extension Educator, Carolina Córdova - Department of Agronomy and Horticulture Assistant Professor and Statewide Soil Health Specialist, Amanda Easterly - Research Associate Professor, Nicolás Cafaro La Menza – Cropping Systems Specialist, Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, Mitiku Mamo - Former Extension Crops and Water Educator

Cover crop plantings

Published: April 9, 2025

Cover Crop Termination Tradeoffs

Jenny Brhel - Extension Educator, Chris Proctor - Weed Management Extension Educator, Katja Koehler-Cole - Extension Educator, Amit Jhala - Professor and Associate Department Head, Department of Agronomy and Horticulture

highboy in corn field

Published: April 2, 2025

Highboy Cover Crop Interseeding Project Fall 2024 Updates

Victor de Sousa Ferreira - Graduate Student, Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, Chris Proctor - Weed Management Extension Educator, John Nelson - Extension Educator, Jenny Brhel - Extension Educator, Bruno Lena - Former Extension Educator, Aaron Nygren - Extension Educator, Travis J. Prochaska - Extension Educator