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Ben Beckman - Extension Educator

Frozen sorghum-sudangrass

October 6, 2023

Frosted Sorghum and Prussic Acid

By Brad Schick - Former Extension Educator, Ben Beckman - Extension Educator

Cattle grazing corn residue

September 27, 2023

Pasture and Forage Minute: Lease Agreement Conditions, Grazing Drought-stressed Crop Residue

By Shannon Sand - Agricultural Economics Extension Educator, Ben Beckman - Extension Educator, Todd Whitney - Extension Educator

Cheatgrass closeup

September 19, 2023

Pasture and Forage Minute: Managing Cheatgrass, Last Alfalfa Harvest and Fall Armyworms

By Jerry Volesky - Nebraska Extension Range and Forage Specialist, Ben Beckman - Extension Educator, Samantha Daniel - Extension Educator

Loading corn silage after harvest

September 6, 2023

Pasture and Forage Minute: Understanding Nitrate Scores, Corn Silage Pricing

By Ben Beckman - Extension Educator, Jerry Volesky - Nebraska Extension Range and Forage Specialist, Shannon Sand - Agricultural Economics Extension Educator

Loading corn silage

August 29, 2023

Pasture and Forage Minute: Considerations for Corn Silage, Last Cutting Alfalfa and Forage Inventories

By Ben Beckman - Extension Educator, Todd Whitney - Extension Educator

Grasshopper in field

August 23, 2023

Pasture and Forage Minute: Managing Grasshoppers, Pasture Weeds and Wet Hay

By Samantha Daniel - Extension Educator, Jerry Volesky - Nebraska Extension Range and Forage Specialist, Ben Beckman - Extension Educator

Drought-stressed soybean field

August 17, 2023

Soybeans for Forage

By Ben Beckman - Extension Educator, Mary Drewnoski - Beef Systems Specialist, Jenny Brhel - Extension Educator

Pasture in drought

August 17, 2023

Pasture and Forage Minute: Managing Drought-stressed Brome, Alfalfa Seeding

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

Hay stack

August 9, 2023

Pasture and Forage Minute: Kernel Processing for Silage, Hay Harvest and Storage Considerations

By Ben Beckman - Extension Educator

Corn silage harvesting

August 3, 2023

Pasture and Forage Minute: Corn Silage Harvest and Storage, Rejuvenating Thin Alfalfa

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

Cattle in pasture during storm

July 26, 2023

Pasture and Forage Minute: Forage Considerations for Hail, High Temperatures

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

July 17, 2023

Pasture and Forage Minute: Nebraska Grazing Conference, Summer Annual Forages and Pricing CRP Hay

By Daren Redfearn - Extension Forage Crop Residue Specialist, Ben Beckman - Extension Educator, Shannon Sand - Agricultural Economics Extension Educator

Alfalfa windrows

July 10, 2023

Pasture and Forage Minute: Managing Alfalfa Windows, Grazing Summer Annual Forages and Water Quality

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

Grasshopper in meadow

July 7, 2023

Pasture and Forage Minute: Grasshopper Control, Sub-irrigated Meadow Hay Harvest

By Ben Beckman - Extension Educator, Samantha Daniel - Extension Educator, Jerry Volesky - Nebraska Extension Range and Forage Specialist

Droughty corn

June 29, 2023

Forage Options for Drought-stressed Non-irrigated Vegetative Corn and Nitrate Concerns

By Mary Drewnoski - Beef Systems Specialist, Ben Beckman - Extension Educator, Jenny Brhel - Extension Educator

Drought-stressed alfalfa field

June 27, 2023

Pasture and Forage Minute: Drought-stunted Alfalfa Options, Bluegrass Control

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

Alfalfa harvest

June 20, 2023

Pasture and Forage Minute: Planting Forage in Stubble and Seeding Year Alfalfa Management

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

Poison hemlock

June 13, 2023

Pasture and Forage Minute: Low Hay Stocks, Grazing Shifts, Toxic Pasture Plants

By Shannon Sand - Agricultural Economics Extension Educator, Jerry Volesky - Nebraska Extension Range and Forage Specialist, Ben Beckman - Extension Educator

Black grass bug

June 9, 2023

Pasture and Forage Minute: Irrigating First Cutting Alfalfa, Black Grass Bugs and Short Pastures

By Todd Whitney - Extension Educator, Samantha Daniel - Extension Educator, Ben Beckman - Extension Educator

Leafy spurge

June 1, 2023

Pasture and Forage Minute: Controlling Alfalfa Weevil and Leafy Spurge, First Cutting Alfalfa

By Samantha Daniel - Extension Educator, Ben Beckman - Extension Educator, Todd Whitney - Extension Educator