When south central Nebraska farmer Jordan Uldrich makes decisions for planting season, he’s not thinking just about what will give him the best yields. He wants to do whatever he can to build soil health.
- Kristen Sindelar
Ever feel like you’re a pawn when trying to decrypt all the different agricultural programs and incentives? Sometimes it seems like just when you're about to make a move, the rules of the game change. Instead of landing on “payday,” you’re sent back to square one.
- Kristen Sindelar
Having the capability to broadcast residual herbicides while simultaneously spot spraying non-residual herbicides can increase yields by as much as 18 bushels per acre.
- Janelle Atyeo
Ahead of planting season at his south central Nebraska farm, Jordan Uldrich was tackling some maintenance and fencing projects.
- Janelle Atyeo
“It would be very challenging if this were year one.”
- Katelyn Winberg
Commodity Classic’s general session drew record attendance Feb. 26 in San Antonio, Texas, as agricultural leaders gathered to discuss policy priorities, technology and market opportunities.
- Kristen Sindelar
One company is eliminating guesswork around fungicide application through its biosensing capability that is rooted in the plant’s physiology.
- Sue Roesler
A wet year in 2025 led to increased white mold pressure in crops throughout the region, especially in soybeans and dry beans, and BASF is launching Zorina fungicide as a protective fungicide to control white mold.
- Crystal Reed
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Conservation practices affect different farms in unique ways and make different demands of the farmer depending on their operation.
- Kristen Sindelar
Run into a farmer at the local coffee shop or parts counter, and conversation invariably turns to the weather. But in 2025, discussions gravitated to the surmounting problem in fields: fungal disease.
- from USDA’s Agricultural Research Service
Researchers released a new spring wheat germplasm line with resistance to Fusarium head blight. This challenging fungal disease leads to significant annual economic losses in cereal crop production, estimated at $2.7 billion between 1998 and 2000, and poses health risks to consumers.
- Kristen Sindelar
A corn field is rare on the Tucker farm. Their mainly dryland acres are like a personal pantry of small grains and pulse crops: sorghum, millet, peas, barley, chickpeas, oats, rye, triticale, wheat, sunflowers and flax.
- Kristen Sindelar
If you’re sitting on a stockpile of subpar hay that is undervalued, rest assured you’re not alone.
- Janelle Atyeo
South central Nebraska farmers came out on a frigid Saturday in December to talk about ways farming practices like reduced tillage, growing cover crops and grazing crop ground can improve the health of the soil and also save them money.
- Janelle Atyeo
After Thanksgiving weekend, the cattle on Jordan Uldrich’s south central Nebraska farm got their feast.
- Jessica Till University of Illinois
A new study from the University of Illinois-Agroecosystem Sustainability Center is providing one of the most comprehensive explanations to-date of how tile drainage, a common agricultural practice, enhances the functioning of agricultural landscapes. Tile drainage has been widely studied as …
- Janelle Atyeo
Hunting season gives Jordan Uldrich some time to reflect on how his farmland is working in tune with nature and the wildlife making their home there.
- By Pat Melgares, K-State Extension
Soybean cyst nematode, tar spot continue spread
Nebraska Extension and the Department of Agricultural Economics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will host the 2025 Crop Insurance Workshop for agribusiness professionals and producers, Nov. 4, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Heartland Event Center in Grand Island, 700 E. Stolley Park Road.
- Kristen Sindelar
As you are harvesting, take note of where SDS exists in your fields. Then use that knowledge for selecting resistant varieties in the future, a UNL expert says.
- Kristen Sindelar
“Throughout the entire process, it’s a magnitude of quality and quantity.”
- By Pat Melgares, K-State Extension
Kansas State University researchers and the state’s farmers are putting their collective support behind a project to reduce the allergenicity of gluten in wheat, while maintaining the grain’s ability for bread and other products.
Soybean farmer leaders were in Houston Sept. 24 to present a ceremonial check of soybean checkoff dollars worth $275,000 to The Andersons Inc. for their expansion project at the Port of Houston. Once completed in the first quarter of 2026, the expansion will enable the export of soybean meal…
- Kristen Sindelar
A new Panhandle Corn Growers Association officially affiliated this June. We talked with growers about the western movement of corn growing and the unique issues they face in the Panhandle of Nebraska.