Typical May rain chances that morph into a warm and drier weather pattern by mid-June is the summer forecast for the Central Plains.
The Graze Master Group is holding a no-cost field day and educational event, “Paths to Profitability,” Wednesday, July 24 in Denton, Nebraska.
No matter the time of year, each growing season presents new challenges that conjure one question after the next. The answers are not always easy to find. But AI (artificial intelligence) is making this type of information easily accessible.
Instead of selling to the highest bidder, owners can sell or transfer their land to an exchange fund while keeping ties to the family farm.
"While I was still hurting for my family and friends that had been affected, I was so proud to be part of a community that would instantly jump into action."
"We can learn so much when we see things through others’ eyes. What do they really see in the places that we love and want to share?"
"As the month of April wound down it brought with it many firsts. The list topper was the first significant rain of the year."
"As the month of April wound down it brought with it many firsts. The list topper was the first significant rain of the year."
“Twins in beef herds are more common than people might think, but they need to be watched closely in the first 24 hours to make sure both calves get colostrum from the dam.”
I have been waging war with the eastern red cedar all my life, nothing delights me more than to see one of them cut up or to see a big one go up in flames when we are burning pasture. I must admit that I am torn because the house we live in has a nice windbreak of eastern cedar, but that is …
It’s that time of year when the preliminary results for Nebraska ag land and rental rates comes out. On average in 2024, the market value for all agricultural land in Nebraska was $4,015 per acre, a 5% increase from the previous year.
"We found trading cards, business cards, notes, family pictures, and even a softball on our first voyage along the field edges after the storm."
"I’m crying not from pain but because I have two pot loads of cattle that need to be in Ogallala for the sale the next morning, and now what?"
While demand is still strong for the highest-quality farmland, prices appear to have plateaued for lesser-quality land.
Farming is not a game. Yet it was a game that saved the farm of George and Ann Rohrbacher. The Farming Game has sold more than 1 million copies since its debut the weekend before Thanksgiving 1979.
Warm spring weather has brought out the hunger in a tiny alfalfa pest.
With boots on the ground, spending quality time learning the ropes at regional feedlots, Kansas State University’s Feedlot Boot Camp program has sparked interest and solidified career paths for many in the feedlot industry.
K-State veterinarians offer recommendations about how to manage a bull if he doesn’t pass his breeding soundness exam
A Kansas State University agricultural economics professor whose nearly four-decade career includes helping to generate more than $2.7 billion through a grid premium program for producers has been named the 2024 winner of the Mark and Eva Gardiner Innovation and Excellence faculty award.
"Speaking of yearling bulls, I am very, very pleased with them this year. This is by far the most uniform set that we’ve raised."
I don’t know why, but the hardest thing about being a parent is admitting that your kid is right.
Later planting dates may be one way soybean growers can thwart the yield-robbing pest known as the soybean gall midge.
HOMINY, Oklahoma – Cole McKinney leapt onto the edge of a metal fence and began banging its side, trying to spook an almost-700-pound bison into turning around inside its pen. But the bison repeatedly lowered its horned head into the fence, resisting McKinney’s order to face the other way.
"We could see the tornado from our front porch and prayed it would not hit our farm."
Farmers of old wore the signature straw hats and bib overalls. If the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) completes its mission to grow plants in space, future agriculturalists may be sporting space suits and moon boots.
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