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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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?
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
CropWatch March 17, 2010: Haiti, Chile Earthquakes Registered in Nebraska Water Well
March 17, 2010
UNL scientists say that recent earthquakes in Haiti and Chile temporarily affected groundwater levels in Nebraska. The hydroseismic activity — the effect that seismic waves have on groundwater -- likely would have been missed if not for a decades-old instrument.