Farmbits

What's Next for FarmBits: Poll Offers Farmers Opportunity to Weigh In on Content, Speakers

May 7, 2021
As the FarmBits podcast is nearing the end of its planting technology series, the podcast team is looking for producer input to help meet their audience's needs throughout the coming months. 

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#NField Observations for May 2021

May 21, 2021
This week, Extension Educator Sarah Sivits addresses concerns about spots on emerging corn this spring.

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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: Taking a Stand (Count)

May 7, 2021
In this episode, Todd Colten, director of flight services for Sentera, St. Paul, Minnesota, discusses the benefits of using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to calculate stand counts.

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Wheat Disease Update

May 6, 2021
Low levels of disease were surveyed in Nebraska wheat on May 5, with fungal leaf spot disease and barley yellow dwarf identified in Jefferson County.

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Interseeding Cover Crops into Corn and Soybean: What We’ve Learned

May 6, 2021
Due to recent research efforts, Nebraska Extension educators expand recommendations on techniques and plant species used for interseeding cover crops in corn and soybeans.

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TAPS Turns Five

May 5, 2021
Since 2017, TAPS has hosted its season-long sprinkler corn contest, and the program continues to see developmental growth — more competitions, contestants, specialists, researchers, programmatic leadership, partners and sponsors.

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Figure 1: Weed Guide customers across the USA (data from UNL Marketplace, 2019). (Photo by Stevan Knezevic)

Extension Marks 61 Years of Weed Guide with User Survey

May 5, 2021
Producers and other agricultural professionals are invited to participate in an anonymous survey about how they utilize Nebraska Extension's Guide for Weed, Disease, and Insect Management in Nebraska.

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Nebraska’s Pesticide Container Recycling Program Enters its 30th Year

May 5, 2021
The Nebraska Pesticide Container Recycling Program provides a way for private and commercial applicators to safely and responsibly dispose of their pesticide containers, free of charge.

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