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Research Updates

New research from the University of NebraskaâLincoln suggests companies can actually profit by giving away their genetic modification technologies to hunger-stricken areas.

October 25, 2018

Research Suggests Fighting World Hunger can be Profitable for Ag Biotech Companies

Chart of corn prices and safety net program levels

October 24, 2018

Cornhusker Economics on Farm Programs, Payments and Prospects

By Brad Lubben - Extension Ag Policy Specialist

Figure 1. Drilling cereal rye into corn stubble in Dodge County, October 19, 2018.

October 24, 2018

It’s Not Too Late to Plant Cereal Rye as a Nitrogen Catch Crop Before Soybean

By Katja Koehler-Cole - Research Assistant Professor in Agronomy and Horticulture, Roger Elmore - Emeritus Extension Cropping Systems Agronomist, Brian Krienke - Former Soils Extension Educator

Figure 1. Researchers tour multiple dry bean variety plots at the Panhandle Research and Extension Center to identify favorable traits for varieties grown in Nebraska and elsewhere. (Photo by David Ostdiek)

September 27, 2018

Worldwide Collaboration to Breed Better Dry Beans

By Carlos Urrea - Dry Bean Breeder David Ostdiek - Former Communications Specialist, Panhandle REC

Figure 1. Two runs of the experiment (front, just beginning second run; back, just finishing first run) conducted in the greenhouse at the Pesticide Application Technology Laboratory at the universityâs West Central Research and Extension Center in North Platte.

September 26, 2018

Competitiveness of Herbicide-Resistant Waterhemp with Soybean

Test plots showing sorghum (center) and other crops double-cropped after field peas in Saunders County in eastern Nebraska.

September 6, 2018

Double Cropping Pulses with Short-Season Crops, Forages, and Cover Crops in Eastern Nebraska

By Alexandre Tonon Rosa - Learning Center Agronomist, Bayer Crop Science, Samuel Koeshall - Agronomy Graduate Research Assistant, Italo Kaye Pinho de Faria - Undergraduate Visiting Scholar, Cody Creech - Dryland Cropping Systems Specialist, Keith Glewen - Extension Educator Emeritus, Strahinja Stepanović - Former Extension Educator

Comparison of two wheat research plots near Scottsbluff. On the left is an untreated control plot with a heavy infestation of downy brome and feral rye. On the right the same population of grassy weeds was treated with Aggressor herbicide, part of the CoAXium Wheat Production System.

August 30, 2018

CoAXium™ Wheat Production System and Aggressor™ Herbicide for Controlling Grassy Weeds

By Cody Creech - Dryland Cropping Systems Specialist

Each year more than 100 research trials are conducted at the South Central Agriculture Laboratory near Harvard. The Aug. 29 SCAL Field Day invites the public to view and learn about the most recent research from UNL and USDA scientists.

August 17, 2018

View Latest Crop and Pest Research at South Central Ag Lab Aug. 29

Figure 1. A view of all four treatments of a corn residue and cover crop experiment at the South Central Agricultural Laboratory near Clay Center. Top left is cereal rye with 60% corn residue removal; top right is cereal with corn residue. Bottom left is no cereal rye with 60% corn residue removal; bottom right is corn residue and no cover crop (control).

August 13, 2018

Cover Crop and Crop Residue Management: How Does it Affect Soil Water in the Short and Long Term?

By Michael Sindelar - Former Cropping Systems Extension Educator, Humberto Blanco - Professor of Soil Science, Virginia Jin - USDA ARS Research Soil Scientist, Richard Ferguson - Extension Soil Fertility Specialist

Field of wheat

August 9, 2018

UNL to Study Possible Link Between Wheat Protein Levels and Fertilizer

By David Ostdiek - Former Communications Specialist, Panhandle REC

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July 25, 2018

AgNews

Weed control research in dry bean plots

July 19, 2018

What Would Happen if We Stopped Controlling Weeds?

By Nevin Lawrence - Integrated Weed Management Specialist

Rezaul Mahmood (left), co-leader of the GRAINEX project, talks with a student and co-leader Eric Rappin (right) of Western Kentucky University.

July 16, 2018

Husker-led Research Team to Examine Irrigation's Role in Precipitation

By Shawna Richter-Ryerson - Communications Associate in the School of Natural Resources

Corn plots 7-9-18

July 13, 2018

2018 Corn Yield Forecasts as of July 11: Higher Temperature Led To Faster Corn Development

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June 21, 2018

Cornhusker Economics: Thinking About the Corn Market

By Fabio Mattos - Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural Eocnomics

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June 8, 2018

Cornhusker Economics: Using Partial Budgets to Examine Incremental Ag Business Changes

By Robert Tigner - Agricultural Systems Economist Educator

Field tour of purple loosestrife management study

June 4, 2018

Research Update: Control of Perennial Invasive Weeds Requires Repeated Herbicide Applications

By Stevan Knezevic - Extension Weed Management Specialist, O. Adewale Osipitan - Post-Doctoral Researcher

Dry rot canker in sugarbeet

May 23, 2018

Dry Rot Canker – Obscure, but Returning Rhizoctonia Disease

By Bob Harveson - Extension Plant Pathologist, Panhandle Research and Extension Center

Buckbrush

May 22, 2018

Study: Efficacy of Herbicides in Buckbrush Control

By Stevan Knezevic - Extension Weed Management Specialist, O. Adewale Osipitan - Post-Doctoral Researcher

Cottonwoods

May 22, 2018

Research Findings on Chemical Control of Cottonwood

By Stevan Knezevic - Extension Weed Management Specialist, O. Adewale Osipitan - Post-Doctoral Researcher