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2018 Fall Seed Guide
$5.50This 48-page guide features results from the 2016 UNL variety trials for winter wheat, winter barley, triticale, and alfalfa and includes a section on Nebraska seed sources from the Nebraska Crop Improvement Association. Winter wheat trials were conducted at 15 sites, including two with organic wheat production. Learn More -
2018 Proceedings of the UNL Crop Production Clinics
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If you missed this year’s UNL Crop Production Clinics, catch up with a copy of the proceedings, a 202-page collection of articles and resource materials developed by the program presenters. It includes research, educational and industry updates by Nebraska Extension specialists.
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2024 Guide to Weed Management
Starting at: $35.00
This 300-page guide is a comprehensive resource for current research-based information and UNL recommendations on weed management in Nebraska crop production, with special sections on fungicides, insecticides, and pesticide application equipment and safety. It includes detailed drawings and photos to aid in weed identification, as well as photos to aid in insect and disease identification.
This guide is a key pest management reference for Nebraska's crop producers. Keep one handy in your pickup or at your desk.
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2024 Guide to Weed Management - Flipbook Download
$25.00Our warehouse has reduced its hours of operation. Orders will be shipped as soon as possible, but please allow at least 5 days for your order to arrive. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
This 286-page guide is a comprehensive resource for newly updated research results and recommendations on weed management in Nebraska crop production. New this year is a chart on herbicide modes of action, tables on selecting sprayer nozzles for droplet size, a section on flame weeding, and expanded fungicide and insecticide listings. It includes detailed drawings and photos to aid in weed identification, as well as photos to aid in insect and disease identification. Section topics include:
- Principles of Weed Management, including herbicide modes and sites of action, integrated weed management, weed management in conservation tillage; non-chemical control; and managing herbicide resistance
- Human Safety and Environmental Stewardship, including ratings for herbicide water solubility, relative soil persistance, and relative soil retention, and potential human and environmental risks
- Application Equipment and Practices, including tips and tables for nozzle selection; spray boom set-up; sprayer calibration; prepare spray mixtures
- Weed Control by Crop and by System, including weed response tables and herbicide programs for alfalfa, chicory, corn, dry bean, ecofarming, garbanzo beans, melons, onions, potatoes, pumpkins, sorghum, soybean, sugarbeet, sunflower, and wheat and small grains (barley, oat, proso millet, rye, triticale)
- Weed Control for Noncrop Areas, including aquatic, CRP, ditches, roadsides, pastures, and turf.
- Noxious and Troublesome Weeds
- Herbicide Use Appendices
- Disease Control by Crop, including fungicide efficacy tables and treatment programs for corn, dry bean, soybean, sugarbeets, and wheat
- Insect Control by Crop, including insecticide efficacy tables for alfalfa, field corn, soybean, and wheat
- Product Dictionaries for herbicides, fungicides and insecticides labeled for use in Nebraska.
- Estimated Herbicide Prices
This guide is a key pest management reference for Nebraska's crop producers. Keep one handy in your pickup or at your desk.
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2024 Nutrient Management Calendar
$10.00The Nutrient Management Calendar serves as a guide for livestock operations that are required by the State of Nebraska to keep records. The calendar was designed to be used by all sizes of livestock operations and includes all records required for operations permitted for the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES). It has been approved by the Nebraska Department of Environment and Energy (NDEE) and recognized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as a valuable resource for livestock producers. The Nutrient Management Calendar holds your livestock operation's records from January to January and contains a coupon for a free calendar for next year.
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Center Pivot Irrigation Handbook
$12.50The Handbook was developed as supporting material for a series of daylong educational workshops focused on enhancing the performance of center pivots through improved understanding of the design and management characteristics of center pivots. The Handbook is also useful as a stand alone document for individual or group educational efforts. Learn More -
Classification & Naming of Plants
$2.25The naming of plants is done in a systematic method to allow gardeners and landscape professions to easily communicate about plants. The classification system is explained in this publication. Learn More -
Common Forbs and Shrubs of Nebraska
$12.50This 260-page book provides illustrations and key details to identify 191 of Nebraska's forbs, shrubs and cacti. This guide is a valuable resource for research, study or pleasure.
The book is divided into four major sections: introductory text and illustrated guide to plant identification; and sections composed of plant descriptions of forbs, cacti and shrubs.
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Common Grasses of Nebraska
$5.00This book provides illustrations and key details to identify more than 100 grass and grass-like plants found in Nebraska.
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Common Signs and Symptoms of Unhealthy Plants
$2.25Plant symptoms may be caused by biotic (living organisms) or abiotic (nonliving) agents. Many abiotic factors can cause symptoms in a landscape or garden. These factors include nutrient imbalances, drought or excess soil moisture, limited light, reduced oxygen availability, air pollution, soil pH extremes, pesticide toxicity, compaction, cultural practices, mechanical damage, and low or high temperatures. Insects, mites, fungi, bacteria, nematodes, viruses, parasitic higher plants, protozoa, and grazing or browsing animals are all examples of biotic agents that damage plants. Learn More