Andy Groskopf, who farms with his father north of Scottsbluff, said the family’s irrigated operation typically grows corn and dry edible beans. This year, however, uncertainty surrounding surface water deliveries has forced major changes. https://t.co/zdfJioGDDC
UNL CASNR Dean's Office hits the road to see first hand all the good agricultural research work their IANR Co-workers are producing out at the Eastern Nebraska Research, Extension and Education Center (ENREEC) near Mead, NE. #Nebraska#Agriculture
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That includes more extreme drought (D3) around North Platte, expansion of D4 in the Panhandle, and introduction of exceptional drought (D4) between Lexington and Curtis, Nebraska. #Drought#Nebraska#Cattle#Wheat#Agriculture#Corn#Ranchers#Farmers https://t.co/lOPTH1pWGv
This year’s winter wheat crop condition in the Plains is one of the poorest in recent history. The weekly crop report issued the US Dept. of Agriculture rates the 44% of Kansas’s and 49% of Oklahoma’s wheat in very poor to poor condition. https://t.co/e7hVSEYKix
The US cattle herd is the smallest it’s been in decades, squeezed by drought and high feed costs. Demand for beef, meanwhile, has held up.
That hasn’t stopped the fingerpointing, with politicians making the protein a key issue ahead of midterm elections. https://t.co/g7F0if42c5
The higher-yielding soybean field carried the Peking source of resistance to soybean cyst nematode (SCN). That single difference explained nearly 20-bushels-per-acre the farm had been losing to SCN for years. https://t.co/55qtefFTvD
The Arctic is warming 4x faster than the rest of the planet, arthropod populations, distributions, and patterns of activity are rapidly changing, too. These shifts can trigger cascading changes that ripple across entire ecosystems.
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Farmers with financial issues today. While China’s renewed purchases and the federal payments are helping, it’s not enough to recover farmers’ losses. After federal assistance, farmers still lost almost $75 per harvested acre of soybeans in the 2025 crop https://t.co/4Fc3oYES6J
Nebraska Agribusiness Club meeting we listened to the Manager of Nebraska Mesonet, Ruben Behnke. NE Mesonet https://t.co/H9hDBdDPvC has 94 weather & soil measurement stations. Warming climate in NE has led to warmest in past 10 yrs. 2025 NE had one of our driest&warmest winters
Our Nebraska Agribusiness Club met w/ Laura Field & Sawyer Willrett of the Nebraska Cattlemen. They have 3500 members in our state. Nebraska is the #1 Cattle Feeding state with the US/Mexico boarder now closed for imported cattle it will stay that way w/new screw worm issues.
Dr. Bijesh Maharjan has been appointed to be the first recipient of the NU Foundation's Ray and Jolene Ward Professor of Soil Health Science Professorship https://t.co/jFp2wyIBse