Crop Production

flooded soybean plants
This year's program will assist producers with making decisions for the 2025 growing season, as well as renewing their private pesticide applicator licenses.

Confronting Cropping Challenges Program to be Offered in December 2024

November 22, 2024
Nebraska Extension's Confronting Cropping Challenges program returns for its eighth year, addressing key agricultural concerns from the 2024 growing season and helping producers prepare for 2025.

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Cattle feed in pasture adjacent to corn field
Of all farm and ranch expenditures for Nebraska in 2023, the livestock expense category was the leading expenditure at $168,667 per operation — 5.72 times the national average.

2023 Farm Production Expenditures Down 1%

August 15, 2024
Livestock expenses increased 11% in 2023 and accounted for 27% of Nebraska's total production expenditures.

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People stand in field observing woman holding corn plant
Nebraska Extension Educator Jenny Rees (center right, holding corn plant) shares her insights during a past Nebraska Corn and Soybean Clinic. (ENREEC photo)

Nebraska Extension Offers Dual Nebraska Soil Health, Corn and Soybean Clinics on Aug. 28-29

August 6, 2024
At this month's extension clinics on soil health, and corn and soybean production, participants will view a wide range of cover crops and a “growing season” all in one place, with hands-on interaction and field demos.

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May 29 Heuermann Lecture Symposium to Focus on Ag Tech Opportunities

May 14, 2024
The public is invited to hear discussion by numerous innovative companies on revolutionary new and emerging technologies for the ag industry at the next Heuermann Lecture, which is free to attend and will be livestreamed. 

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For more information or assistance with completing a USDA NASS survey, visit the respondent portal.

USDA Seeks Feedback from Producers about 2024 Crops, Stocks, Inventories and Values

May 14, 2024
Producers are encouraged to provide information on planted and harvested acreage, including acreage for biotech crops, and grain stocks, to aid NASS in determining the national supply of commodities for the 2024 crop year.

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3-D mockup of precision ag research facility
The National Center for Resilient and Regenerative Precision Agriculture at Nebraska Innovation Campus will be a $160 million USDA laboratory, enabling USDA ARS to perform research on wheat, barley, sorghum, forage and bioenergy grasses, and other crops. Research on how these plants respond to emerging pests and pathogens under a full range of environmental conditions will empower scientists to make cutting-edge discoveries with the goal of developing climate-resilient crops for the U.S. agriculture industry. (Nebraska Today image)

Construction Begins on Groundbreaking Precision Ag Research Center

May 10, 2024
The state-of-the-art research center will house USDA ARS studies on the impact of emerging pests and pathogens on crops with the goal of developing climate-resilient crops for the U.S. agriculture industry.

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Nebraska’s net farm income is projected at $6 billion in 2024, down from $7.2 billion in 2023. (CAP photo)

Nebraska Farm Income Projected to Fall in 2024

April 4, 2024
The projected decline is attributed to a downturn in crop receipts in the state — due to lower crop prices in 2023 — that look to fall further in 2024.

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Tractor planting field
Prospective Planting survey results will be published in the Prospective Plantings and quarterly Grain Stocks reports to be released on March 28, 2024.

USDA to Survey Farmers’ Planting Intentions for 2024

February 16, 2024
NASS will mail the survey questionnaire in late February, asking producers to provide information about the types of crops and amount of acreage they intend to plant in 2024.

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