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Hosted by Samantha Teten and Jackson Stansell — graduate students in UNL's Department of Biological Systems Engineering and Nebraska Extension Digital Agriculture team members — FarmBits Podcast is a weekly series highlighting new innovations and trends in digital agriculture through interviews with academic experts, farmers and industry specialists.

FarmBits Podcast: Sky-High Scouting

August 5, 2021
Taranis Regional Sales Manager Tim Pearson highlights the company’s approach to scouting — specifically the technology used in Taranis’ precision scouting services, and how it is making scouting operations more efficient.

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Thick, dense, upper canopy of sorghum-sudangrass field in Lincoln, Nebraska. (CropWatch file photo)

Pasture and Forage Minute: Late Summer Planting and Regrowth Concerns

August 5, 2021
This week, extension educators review some of the concerns with late summer alfalfa planting, toxicity levels in sorghum and sudangrass regrowth, and how leaving hay bales in the fields can affect your yields.

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Turfgrass farm in aerial display

2020 Farm Production Expenditures Down 4%

August 5, 2021
Farm and ranch production expenditures for Nebraska totaled $20.3 billion in 2020, down 4% from a year earlier, according to USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service.

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Nebraska Crop Progress for Aug. 1

August 5, 2021
For the week ending Aug. 1, 2021, corn condition rated 51% good and 20% excellent. Winter wheat harvested was 95%.

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2021 corn yield potential map

2021 Corn Yield Forecasts as of Aug. 4

August 4, 2021
Below-average rainfall has increased the probability of low yield for rainfed sites in western and northern parts of the Corn Belt and central Iowa.

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Water and Crops Field Day flyer

Water and Crops Field Day Set for Aug. 26

August 3, 2021
This year’s focus, “Using Technology to Improve Efficiency and Resiliency,” will involve in-field demonstrations of irrigation and nitrogen, chemigation as a pest management tool, and more.

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Using Cover Crops to Reduce Nitrate Leaching in the Waverly Wellhead Protection Area

August 3, 2021
Nebraska Extension research on growing cover crops to reduce nitrate leaching and improving soil resilience in Nebraska communities where groundwater nitrate concentration in municipal wells is rising.

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Hosted by Samantha Teten and Jackson Stansell — graduate students in UNL's Department of Biological Systems Engineering and Nebraska Extension Digital Agriculture team members — FarmBits Podcast is a weekly series highlighting new innovations and trends in digital agriculture through interviews with academic experts, farmers and industry specialists.

FarmBits Podcast: Partners in Precision

July 29, 2021
Ethan Noll, of AgPartners Cooperative, Inc., offers his perspective on the digital tools that AgPartners is leveraging to enhance crop protection services for their customers.

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