CropWatch March 15, 2010: Hergert Receives Great Plains Soil Fertility Leadership Award

March 15, 2010

Gary Hergert, extension soil and nutrient management specialist at UNL's Panhandle Research and Extension Center, was recently awarded the Great Plains Soil Fertility Leadership Award.

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Shaver to Focus on Nutrient Mangement & Precision Agriculture at WCREC

March 19, 2010

Tim Shaver, the new nutrient management specialist at UNL’s West Central Research and Extension Center, is looking forward to his first season of research and extension programming in the region.

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CropWatch March 18, 2010: Tips for Making Pasture Fertilizing Pay

March 18, 2010

With nitrogen fertilizer costing about 40 cents per pound this spring, you may be asking whether it pays to fertilize pasture?

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CropWatch March 18, 2010: Alfalfa Needs Early Season Attention

March 18, 2010

If your internal engines are reving up to get out in the field but it's still too early, shift your gears to your alfalfa crop.  Taking time in the next two weeks for assessment and decision-making can be critical to the success of this year's crop. 

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CropWatch March 19, 2010: Managing Early Season Winter Annuals in Pastures

March 19, 2010

Given the plentiful soil moisture conditions across much of the state, early winter annuals like cheatgrass, downy brome, and wild oats are likely to be a big problem in pastures this spring. Winter annual bromes can reduce pasture quality and carrying capacity.

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CropWatch March 19, 2010: Field Updates

March 19, 2010

Douglas Anderson, Extension Educator in Keith, Arthur, and Perkins counties: It’s wet, but drying. Puddles are still on the ground, but getting smaller. In some place frost has gone, but we still have frost in ground and are expecting more snow this weekend.

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CropWatch March 19, 2010: High Plains Cover Crops Workshop March 29

March 19, 2010

What do we know about the use of cover crops and forages in dryland farming in the High Plains, and what still needs to be learned?

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CropWatch March 19, 2010: March 29 Soybean School at David City

March 19, 2010

Learn about soybean production and factors that could be limiting your production at a Soybean School to be held March 29 in David City. The event will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the David City Hruska Library at 399 N. 5th St.

Program topics will include

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