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Variety Selection

Alfalfa with girdled stems

February 2, 2026

Pasture and Forage Minute: Alfalfa Seed Selection to Combat Disease, Pasture Lease Considerations

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

Dipak Santra stands in a pea research field holding notes, with labeled plots and an irrigation pivot visible in the background.

January 23, 2026

Results for 2025 Nebraska Pea Variety Testing Released

By Dipak Santra - Alternative Crops Breeding Specialist

A field of healthy green alfalfa in spring under a cloudy sky.

January 20, 2026

Pasture and Forage Minute: Snow Cover Concerns, Selecting Alfalfa Varieties

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

Close-up of cereal rye ‘Elbon’ on the left and winter wheat on the right growing in dry, cracked soil at the Eastern Nebraska Research, Extension and Education Center as plants mature.

October 8, 2025

Selecting the Right Winter Small Grain Cover Crop This Fall

By Katja Koehler-Cole - Extension Educator, Andrea Basche – Associate Professor, David Scoby - Laboratory Research Manager, Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, Ben Beckman - Extension Educator, Vesh R. Thapa - Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Agronomy and Horticulture

side by side comparison of cover crop fields in summer

July 10, 2025

Summer Cover Crop Potential in Eastern Nebraska

By Grace E. Pacheco - Former MS student, Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, Vesh R. Thapa - Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, Bridget McKinley - Former MS student, Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, Andrea Basche – Associate Professor, Katja Koehler-Cole - Extension Educator, Amanda Easterly - Research Associate Professor, Paul Jasa - Former Extension Engineer, Retired

wheat field

February 18, 2025

Roots of Progress: The Hybrid Wheat Journey Continues

By Amanda Easterly - Research Associate Professor, Chabella Guzman - Panhandle Research, Extension and Education Center Communications Specialist

Figure 1. Various soybean varieties exhibit differences in Sudden Death Syndrome foliar symptoms. (Photo by Nathan Mueller)

October 11, 2017

Large Check, Small Seed, Significant Impact

By Nathan Mueller - USDA NRCS, State Soil Health Specialist, Roger Elmore - Emeritus Extension Cropping Systems Agronomist, Troy Ingram - Former Extension Educator

UNL variety trials conducted in eastern Nebraska are an important process to help guide growerâs variety selection.

September 27, 2018

Winter Wheat Varieties with an Eastern Nebraska Fit

By Nathan Mueller - USDA NRCS, State Soil Health Specialist, Teshome Regassa - Research Assistant Professor, Stephen Wegulo - Extension Plant Pathologist, Randy Pryor - Extension Educator, Megan Taylor - Former Extension Educator

Winter wheat field trials conducted at the University of Nebraska Eastern Nebraska Research and Extension Center in 2018-2019.

September 11, 2019

Winter Wheat Varieties for Eastern Nebraska

By Nathan Mueller - USDA NRCS, State Soil Health Specialist, Stephen Wegulo - Extension Plant Pathologist, Cody Creech - Dryland Cropping Systems Specialist, Amanda Easterly - Research Associate Professor, Brian Maust - Agronomy Research Technologist

Fall Seed Guide cover

September 1, 2022

Fall 2022 Seed Guide Available

By Amanda Easterly - Research Associate Professor, Brian Maust - Agronomy Research Technologist, Cody Creech - Dryland Cropping Systems Specialist, Katherine Frels - Assistant Professor, Department of Agronomy and Horticulture

Wheat plot tour participants in field

August 24, 2023

Nebraska Extension Aids Growers with Studies on Wheat Planting Varieties

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

Calculator on top of tax paperwork

January 9, 2024

Pasture and Forage Minute: Record-keeping for Taxes, Selecting Alfalfa Varieties

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