A crowd gathers around the USDA NRCS live rainfall simulator which demonstrates the outcome of different soil health practices, led by Nathan Meuller, USDA NRCS state soil health specialist, at the WCREEC Water, Crops and Soil Health Field Day on Sept. 5. (Photo by Bijesh Maharjan)

Nebraska soil health school: an accomplishment of goals through collaboration

  • By Nicole Heldt │ University of Nebraska Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources
Cattle at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Panhandle Research Feedlot wait for their feed rations from a truck driven by Sofia Canafoglia, a visiting scholar. (Photo by Chabella Guzman.)

UNL and WNCC partner to help Panhandle youth

Soil moisture is defined as the ratio of the volume of water to the volume of soil. (Journal photo by Kylene Scott.)

New focus for Nebraska Soil Health School

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

Nebraska to celebrate women ag leaders

Maria Fernanda Sanches, an intern at the High Plains Ag Lab, prepares a root sample at the Panhandle Research Extension and Education Center’s lab in Scottsbluff. (Photo: Chabella Guzman)

Researchers look at roots for insight into drought-tolerant wheat

  • By Chabella Guzman │ University of Nebraska-Lincoln
New facility planned for the National Center for Resilient and Regenerative Precision Agriculture. (Drawing courtesy of HDR.)

Groundbreaking notes start of Nebraska precision ag research center

Grilling steaks on flaming grill (Photo: iStock - rez-art)

Loeffel Meat Shoppe to have reopening May 3

Fall harvest scene. (Photo courtesy of DEKALB Asgrow.)

Nebraska farm income expected to drop