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People gather around computer near field

August 15, 2024

Field Tours and More at the Annual P.A.R.T.T.

By Chabella Guzman - Panhandle Research, Extension and Education Center Communications Specialist

Three women stand in field of mint plants

July 2, 2024

Nebraska Extension Projects Look at Viability and Economics of Mint in Panhandle

By Chabella Guzman - Panhandle Research, Extension and Education Center Communications Specialist

Sawfly traps in field

February 12, 2024

High Plains Ag Lab Meeting to Focus on Research Updates

By Chabella Guzman - Panhandle Research, Extension and Education Center Communications Specialist

Aerial view of research plots

August 5, 2021

Panhandle Center Hosts Field Day Aug. 19

Proso millet field

March 10, 2021

2020 Proso Millet Variety Trial Results Available Online

By Dipak Santra - Alternative Crops Breeding Specialist, David Ostdiek - Former Communications Specialist, Panhandle REC

Integrated Weed Management Specialist Nevin Lawrence speaks in front of a weed control plot

July 22, 2020

Panhandle Center to Host Field Day Aug. 20

A mint variety trial plot at the Panhandle Center.

March 24, 2020

Alternative Crops Program Investigates Growing Mint in Western Nebraska

By Dipak Santra - Alternative Crops Breeding Specialist, David Ostdiek - Former Communications Specialist, Panhandle REC

Figure 1. Nevin Lawrence, integrated weed management specialist, shows an individual rubber dandelion plant in the greenhouse at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Panhandle Research and Extension Center.

May 17, 2019

Can Nebraska Grow Rubber-Producing Dandelions on a Farm Scale?

By David Ostdiek - Former Communications Specialist, Panhandle REC

Tyler Williams speaks at one of the 2018 Successful Farmer sessions

December 12, 2018

Extension Successful Farmer Series Starts January 4

By Tyler Williams - Former Cropping Systems Extension Educator

Field peas

January 9, 2018

Adoption of Yellow Field Pea: Replacing Summer Fallow with Field Pea and the Relationship between Planting Timing, Population, and Yield

By Samuel Koeshall - Agronomy Graduate Research Assistant, Cody Creech - Dryland Cropping Systems Specialist, Amanda Easterly - Research Associate Professor, Rodrigo Werle - Former Cropping Systems Specialist, Strahinja Stepanović - Former Extension Educator

Allison Rickey and Dipak Santra

May 17, 2016

Canola Research May Lead to Additional Crop Option

By David Ostdiek - Former Communications Specialist, Panhandle REC

cropwatch graphic

March 18, 2016

Neighbor-to-Neighbor Communication Key to Avoiding Drift Damage

By Cheryl Alberts - Pesticide Safety Education Program Project Coordinator