Publications

Preventing the Credit Card Blues at 22 is a computer curriculum to teach high school students to make good decisions about credit card use. At the end of the program, students will know how to make better-informed decisions about the need for and the use of credit cards. Lessons learned will include:

• Defining creditidentifying needs vs. wants
• Recognizing incentives used by credit card companies to solicit credit applications
• Identifying the costs associated with using credit
• Managing credit card debt
• Protecting personal identify

This CD includes tools that can be used to teach the program as well as introduce and promote it to schools. Documents on the CD are in printable PDF format and include samples of letters to school administrators and local funders and news releases. Also included are lesson plans, evaluation tools, classroom handouts and two PowerPoint presentations.

Requirements: Accessible to both PC and Mac users

Research results from specialists across the Great Plains, along with grower interviews provide information on proso millet varieties, weed control, cost of production, and marketing. Updates from the 1995 edition include new sections on water use and yield and growth rate. Under the harvesting section, information has been added about harvesting with a stripper header.

Also new are seven farmer-to-farmer interviews where proso growers share their experiences with the crop, including why they grow it and how they grow and harvest it. The growers are from Colorado, western Nebraska, Wyoming, and South Dakota. Published by University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension, with expertise from Colorado State University, South Dakota State University, the University of Wyoming and the USDA-ARS Central Great Plains Research Station, this 20-page guide offers resources on a full range of proso millet topics. Topics include seed selection, planting and emergence issues, how proso millet fits into various crop rotations, selecting and preparing the field, growth rate, combating weeds, harvesting and marketing.

Research charts include:

• · Proso millet production
• · Feed value of corn, proso millet, grain sorghum and wheat in beef cattle
• · Nitrogen recommendations for proso millet
• · Proso millet grain yield following four different recrop strategies after the loss of winter wheat to hail
• · Phosphorus and Potassium recommendations for proso millet

8 1/2" x 11"; 20 pages

Between 1996 and 2006, farmers in the Big Blue River Basin in southeast Nebraska adopted a number of best management practices to help increase yield, reduce costs, and minimize environmental impacts. This Extension Circular documents the dramatic changes over this 10-year period in corn and sorghum operations related to tillage, irrigation, fertilization, water conservation, pest management practices, and cropping systems.  Research and data from grower surveys is well illustrated with graphics, maps, photos, and tables.

Range Beef Cow Symposium XXII was held in Mitchell, Nebr., November 29, 30, and December 1, 2011. The proceedings are a collection of papers that many of the speakers wrote to complement their talks. Papers in the proceedings cover a wide range of topics including estate planning, antibiotic use in the beef industry, the importance of steak origin to restaurant customers, calculating the unit cost of product for the ranch, implementing marker assisted EPDs, how the structure of the beef industry is changing, and many more. The symposium was presented by the Animal Science departments and the Extension Services of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, South Dakota State University, Colorado State University, and the University of Wyoming.

RBCS XXIII will be held in Rapid City, S.D. December 3-5, 2013.

Corn farmers looking for a quick and easy way to calculate their nitrogen rate or consider adjustments based on nitrogen and corn costs will appreciate this handy, pocket slide rule. To use this tool, you will need to know the amount of soil organic matter in your fields based on soil tests.

The Corn Nitrogen Rate Slide Rule was produced with financial support from the Nebraska Corn Board.