UNL-TAPS to Host Summer Field Day on June 19
May 22, 2024
This year's annual field day will include new contests in the Agronomic Olympics, live demos, guest speakers and a four-man golf scramble.
UNL-TAPS: Reflections on Seven Years of Irrigation and Nitrogen Management
April 11, 2024
Extension insights on the year-to-year variability in corn yield response to irrigation and nitrogen (N) fertilizer rates throughout seven years of the TAPS sprinkler irrigated corn competition.
TAPS: A Year of Surprising Results
March 14, 2024
TAPS leaders discuss the effect of the many different strategies and decisions made in the 2023 contest in the wake of hail damage and a declining corn market.
Learn, Launch, Interact Event to Kick Off 2024 TAPS Competitions
February 29, 2024
The March 21 Kickoff Event is open to the public and will usher in the 2024 TAPS Competition, which features a new soybean contest at ENREEC.
![The UNL TAPS team is looking for people interested in participating in the inaugural year of the soybean competition. If interested, contact TAPS Program Manager <a href="mailto:krystle.rhoades@unl.edu">Krystle Rhoades</a>. Closeup of soybean field](https://cropwatch.unl.edu/styles/large/public/images/hero/2024/2024-02-02-taps-soybean-competition.jpeg?itok=ElCV48ta)
Soybeans to be Newest Nebraska TAPS Competition in 2024
February 2, 2024
The new soybean competition will be hosted at ENREEC near Mead, and will give participants the opportunity to test a wide range of ag management technologies.
TAPS Awards Banquet Culminates 2023 Competitions
January 18, 2024
See the results of the 2023 UNL-TAPS Competition for sorghum, SDI corn, sprinkler corn and the newest category for the contest — irrigated popcorn.
![Participants in the 2023 TAPS Competition tackled some atypical challenges during this year's contest, from hail damage in corn plots to irrigation issues in sorghum. Contestants' strategies to overcome these and other production issues throughout the growing season will be shared during the awards banquet on Jan. 13 in Kearney. Field of sorghum](https://cropwatch.unl.edu/styles/large/public/images/hero/2023/2023-12-15-taps-banquet-hero.jpeg?itok=dHBOQvyf)
2023 TAPS Competitions to Culminate with Awards Banquet
December 12, 2023
The seventh annual TAPS Competition awards banquet will showcase how participants managed their plots throughout the 2023 growing season amid numerous production challenges.
Irrigation Varies Amid One of Wetter Seasons in TAPS History
November 2, 2023
This article provides a brief summary of the irrigation decisions made in the TAPS sorghum, popcorn, SDI corn and sprinkler corn competitions this year.