Frozen turkeys at a grocery story (Photo: USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service)

High Plains region recipient of USDA meat processing grants

The U.S. Drought Monitor is jointly produced by the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration. (Map courtesy of NDMC.)

Spotty rain brought some relief to High Plains

A walleye with a metal tag is in its jaw is being tracked as part of a study to understand declines in the walleye and sauger fisheries in the Missouri River and Lewis and Clark Lake between Fort Randall and Gavins Point dams following flooding in 2011. (Photo by Eric Fowler for Nebraskaland Magazine and Nebraska Game and Parks Commission.)

Know when, where to fish to keep summer fishing edge

  • By Jerry Kane │ Nebraska Game and Parks Commission
Raking hay (Photo: Iowa State University Extension and Outreach)

Forage field day set for Aug. 6 in Eastern Nebraska

  • By Fred M. Hall │ Iowa State University Extension and Outreach
Water pollution. The fish dies in dirty water. (Photo: iStock - Anna Solovei)

Fish kill occurs at Big Indian Lake

Field of millet in western Nebraska. (Photo by Chabella Guzman.)

Nebraska producers reminded to file crop acres report

Regina Bird

June saw the gamut of weather in the central Plains

The U.S. Drought Monitor is jointly produced by the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration. (Map courtesy of NDMC.)

Extremes of heat felt in the Plains