Alfalfa Harvest: What's Causing Disappointing Test Weights
July 25, 2008
With the late start, cooler temperatures and increased rain, a number of crop production factors are a little different this year, including pasture production and hay content.
Flying Turnips Or Rye Into Corn
July 25, 2008
Crop residues like corn stalks provide good winter feed, but sometimes, adding turnips or cereal rye can make them even better.
Corn stalks are one of the best and least costly winter feeds, but once cattle finish eating the grain and husks, what remains isn't all that good.
Plant Turnips For Winter Grazing
July 25, 2008
If you're interested in planting turnips into wheat or oat stubble for a high quality pasture, now is the time to plant them.
Turnips provide good grazing beginning in October and often lasting into the new year. Also, they are cheap to plant, with seed costing less than $10 per acre.
New Farm Program Deadlines
July 25, 2008
Several farm program deadlines are coming up and are new or changed from previous years, according to Doug Klein, program specialist with the Nebraska state office of USDA's Farm Service Agency.
No-Till Farmer-Expert Helps Others Make the Switch
July 25, 2008
"In 1987 when I got started with no-till, I was 35 years old and still single. I had better things to do than till fields to kill weeds that weren't even there yet," said Dan Gillespie, state no-till specialist for the Natural Resource Conservation Service.
Research Geared to Easy Storage of Wet Distillers Grains
July 25, 2008
UNL research indicates that wet distillers grains are easier to store than most people might expect, said a UNL specialist.
USDA: Crop Report
July 25, 2008
Wheat harvest was completed throughout muchof the south and was active in the southern Panhandle, according to the July 20 report from USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service,Nebraska Field Office. Droughtconditions remain in the Panhandle with only 72% of normalrainfall since April 1.