November 26 - December 5
Soybeans:Using resistant varieties to combat diseases
Conservation:Decommissioning old water wells; renovating windbreaks to bolster effectiveness
Management:End of year tax options
High Input Prices:Eliminate one field operation; Giving proper nitrogen credit for legumes in corn and milo rotations; Credit soil for nitrate nitrogen
October 17 - November 7
Grain Storage:Monitor stored grain condition
Management:Leasing decisions in a volatile market
Weather:Climate change and its implications for world agriculture; Freeze ends crop season; Revitalizing warm-season pastures
High Input Prices:Reduce drying time and energy cost; Reduce on-farm grain drying energy costs; High-speed, high-capacity dryers; repair or replace inefficient irrigation pumping plants; Generic versus name brand herbicides; Integrated pest management; Giving proper nitrogen credit for legumes in corn and milo rotations
October 3
Pest Management:Test soybean fields post-harvest for SCN
Grain Storage:Selecting the right aeration fan; Estimating corn drying time
Forage:Salvaging green soybeans for forage or green manure; How a freeze affects forages; Thistle control
Soil Fertility:Using poultry litter as fertilizer
September 22
Pest Management:Taking count of soybean stem borer
Weather:Weather and reservoir update; fall forecasts; Threat of frost for sunflowers
Soil Fertility:New university Web site for fertilizer recommendations
Soybeans:Research finds conventional soybeans can offer high yields at lower cost; Bronze soybeans a response to variety, weather
Weed Management:Controlling winter annuals
September 12
Disease Management:Goss's bacterial wilt widespread
Farm Management:Nebraska crop budgets for 2009
Soil Fertility:Testing corn stalks for nitrogen
Grain Storage:Filling grain bins in layers
Irrigation:Assessing irrigation pumping plant performance
Forage:Liming alfalfa; Last cutting of alfalfa; Controlling leafy spurge in pastures
August 22 - Sept. 4
Disease Management:Fall strategies for managing Fusarium head blight
昆虫的管理:High grasshopper pressure warrants concern for winter wheat planting
Irrigation:保护中心pivot water use
Grain Storage:How much are corn stalks worth in the field? Reduce energy costs for in-bin grain drying and for high speed, high capacity dryers; Residue boosts yields in water-limited conditions
Forage:Forage testing options; Advantages of rye, triticale, or wheat; Spreading manure on alfalfa; Finding higher profits in cash hay opportunities; Testing for hay quality; Managing late summer pasture weeds
August 15
昆虫的管理:Aphid populations still increasing; Soybean stem borer active in Nebraska; Scout for 2nd generation bean leaf beetles and 2nd generation European corn borers
Soil Fertility:Soil testing for wheat
August 8
昆虫的管理:Soybean aphids increasing
Wheat:wheat profits could narrow as input prices increase; UNL records best wheat variety test results ever; New wheat varieties; Selecting the right seed mix for your operation; Balancing risk with complementary varieties; Virtual wheat variety tour online; Problems when wheat follows wheat; Scab found in wheat seed samples; Wheat seeding rates; Recommended planting dates; How reds and whites get mixed
Disease Management:Rust diseases continue and goss's wilt increases; Control of pre-harvest volunteer wheat critical to virus management; Wheat seed fungicides
Weed Management:Controlling winter annual grasses in winter wheat
Forage:Preparing seedbeds for late summer grass and alfalfa planting; Thickening existing alfalfa stands; Removing hay bales soon after harvest; Planting oats
Farm Management:Nebraska farm real estate value and cash rents higher
August 1
Disease Management:Southern rust confirmed in southern Nebraska; Other corn diseases
Soil Fertility:University closes Soil and Plant Analytical Lab
July 25
昆虫的管理:Stink bugs in corn and soybeans; Soybean aphid update
Disease Management:When to apply soybean fungicides
Weed Management:Timely weed control essential after wheat harvest
Forage:更换稀释紫花苜蓿田;阿尔夫的担忧alfa; Flying turnips or rye into corn or planting turnips into wheat residue
July 11
Disease Management:Bacterial blight common in soybeans Insect Management: Evaluating corn rootworm control
Soil Fertility:Research on fertilizer timing and rates for irrigated wheat; Feedlot manure as fertilizer
Safety:Cleaning and disposing of pesticide containers
June 27 - July 3
Wheat:Adhere to application timing and preharvest intervals for wheat fungicides; Rust diseases in wheat; NDA reminder on preharvest intervals for wheat fungicides
Soil Fertility:Rising fertilizer prices reinforce need for soil testing, careful planning Disease Management: Foliar corn diseases developing earlier than normal; Treating hail-damaged corn with foliar fungicides Insect Management: Start scouting for soybean aphids; Scouting and treating western bean cutworms; Links to light trap data
Soybeans:Replanting soybeans; Phytophthora and pythium in Nebraska soybeans; Hail injury and possible soybean diseases
Proso Millet:Chemical weed control in proso millet; Extension proso millet production guide
Forage:Controlling potato leafhoppers in alfalfa; Seeding forages into wheat stubble; Storing hay to minimize losses
Conservation:Grassed waterways a standard for erosion control; proper maintenance contributes to windbreak efficiency; summer weather outlook: equal chances wet or dry; field updates
Safety:Testing and treating flooded drinking water wells; West Nile Virus protection tips
June 20
Disease Management:Wheat scab back; Handling scabby wheat with mycotoxins
Soil Fertility:Assessing nitrogen loss due to saturated soils
Farm Management:Crop insurance options for storm-damaged fields; Selecting a reliable contractor to fix storm damaged buildings
昆虫的管理:Begin scouting for 1st generation European corn borer moths
Irrigation:Checking irrigation pumping plants
Forage:Controlling summer grasses in alfalfa; Growing quality alfalfa hay to meet market demand
June 6 - June 13
Weather:Replant options after corn preemergence herbicide; Flooded fields, problems, and applications; Weather update, Reservoirs filling; Corn and soybean replanting options and issues
Forage:Replanting crop fields to forages; tips for delayed alfalfa harvest; Controlling thistles in pastures; Controlling postemergence weeds in alfalfa; Why it's important to make hay while the sun shines
Irrigation:Measuring soil water status using Watermark sensors; Estimating crop evapotranspiration; Using water and energy more efficiently for irrigation; Decommissioning water wells; Changes in irrigating dry beans
Disease Management:Distinguishing between wheat head diseases and other disorders; Fusarium head blight found in Lancaster and Saunders county wheat
昆虫的管理:Stink bugs damaging corn; Alfalfa weevil predictor map; Selecting the right glove for safe pesticide handling
May 23
Disease Management:Fusarium head blight in wheat alert
昆虫的管理:Pink form of pea aphid found Nebraska alfalfa; Alfalfa weevil predictor map; Early season corn insect; Staying safe when transporting pesticides; using UNL's Plant and Pest Diagnostic Clinic
Corn:Identifying problems with shallow planted corn
Forage:Match hay harvest timing to livestock nutrient needs
Weed Management:Weed competitiveness in soybean; Controlling buckbrush; Hoary vervain and other pasture weeds
May 16
Wheat:Wheat condition, diseases, fungicides
昆虫的管理:Alfalfa weevils feeding
Weed Management:Timing post-emergence weed control in corn; Controlling volunteer corn, Velvetleaf, Common mullein; Insects influence timing of weed management in soybeans
Forage:Preservatives affect hay moisture
May 9
Soil Fertility:Examining high phosphorus prices and UNL recommendations; Wheat: Wheat disease update; USDA wheat forecast; Wheat plot tours scheduled for June
昆虫的管理:Scout for alfalfa and clover leaf weevil; Lock up pesticides to prevent poisonings
Weed Management:Controlling problem weeds in Roundup Ready soybean with soil-applied herbicides; even pressure a must in calibrating sprayers; UNL weed science Web site; Control winter annual weeds
May 2
Disease Management:With cold wet soils, watch for corn seedling diseases
Weed Management: Parameters for using preemergence herbicides on emerged corn
Forage:Adjusting for late planted alfalfa; Irrigating alfalfa with limited water; Managing spring grazing to reduce excess heading
April 25
Wheat:Managing poor wheat stands in the Nebraska Panhandle; Soilborne mosaic confirmed in wheat
Weed Management:Soybean cyst nematodes now in 45 counties; Fungicide update: quilt label amended; IPM: As important now as ever; Commodity and input prices on soybean herbicide programs
昆虫的管理:Pesticide exposure extends to applicator's family
Forage: Options for winterkilled alfalfa
April 18
Soil Fertility:Soil moisture levels improve in west
Farm Management:new web site a learning tool for using weather information for irrigation; Estimating cost-of-production figures for Panhandle farmers
Weed Management: NDA adds phragmites to noxious weed list under temporary order; Controlling musk thistle and eastern redcedar
Forage:Benefits of switchgrass for hay and forage
April 11
Farm Management:If planting gets delayed, which crop do you plant first – corn or soybeans? Insect Management: Grasshopper potential remains high for some Nebraska rangeland; Scout early emerging soybeans for bean leaf beetles
Forage:short cuts for planting alfalfa; Controlling winter annual brome; Wrapping hay to beat the weather
April 4
Soybean:Soybean seeding rate decrease doesn't hurt yield; Why soybean planting date matters; Soybean seed fungicide treatment
昆虫的管理:Army cutworm infestations in Panhandle; Crop refuges for insect resistance management
Farm Management:Forward contracts in unsteady wheat markets; Estimating the effect of fuel price increases on your operation; Calibrating a hand-held sprayer; fine-tuning your marketing plan
Forage:Using grass-alfalfa mixtures; Controlled burns on grasslands; Using fertilizer or legumes to boost pasture production
March 28
Soil Fertility:Managing nitrogen; Combining weed and feed treatments
Wheat:wheat condition in western Nebraska; Assessing potential plant damage; Timing wheat fungicide applications; Managing wheat diseases
Weed Management:WeedSOFT Tank-Mix Tool Equipment: Tuning up planters
Forage:Using Rhizobium inoculants for legumes; Early grazing winter pastures; Controlling weeds early in spring-seed alfalfa
Farm Management:Managing financial risk during a boom period
March 21
Farm Management:Average farm land values up 23% in last year; Terminating farm leases
Disease Management:Nebraska at low risk for Stewart's Wilt and flea beetle damage
昆虫的管理:insecticide update
Weed Management:Glyphosate comparison
Forage:Benefits of applying manure before seeding alfalfa; Make fertilizing pastures pay
March 7
Farm Management:Crop insurance deadline approaching: new issues to consider
Soil Fertility:Value of soil testing and nutrient accounting; Protecting your nitrogen fertilizer investment; Corn nitrogen calculator; Factors for increased fertilizer costs
昆虫的管理:Product updates: foliar fungicides for corn, soybean and wheat; Proline fungicide added for wheat
Wheat:New wheat herbicides; research assesses nitrogen use and recommendations for winter wheat; brown mid-rib varieties improve quality
February
Farm Management:UNL tools assess profitable planting options
Soil Fertility:Factors affecting fertilizer prices; efficient fertilizer application practices
Forage:Benefits of forages with limited water; Pasture leases in times of drought
昆虫的管理:Biological control of insects
Irrigation:Irrigation with limited water; Converting irrigated land to dryland