Publications

This set of two photo identification guides covers the insect pests of Nebraska corn. For each pest, the guide includes a photo and information on its life cycle and size and appearance at various stages. Corn Insects I (EC1572) covers European corn borer, western bean cutworm, corn earworm, black cutworm, armyworm, fall armyworm, and common stalk borer. Corn Insects II (EC1573) covers western and northern corn rootworms, seed corn maggot, wireworm, southern corn leaf beetle, corn leaf aphid, twospotted spider mite, banks grass mite, corn flea beetle; white grub, chinch bugs and seed corn beetle.

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Parents can help their adolescent deal with divorce by understanding what they are feeling and helping them to communicate effectively. Learn More

Parents can help their adolescent deal with divorce by understanding what they are feeling and helping them to communicate effectively. Learn More

This pair of publications covers various diseases that can affect dry beans and the management of those diseases.

Dry Bean Disease Profiles I, EC1876 contains descriptions and photos of bean common mosaic, bean yellow mosaic, rust, common blight, halo blight, brown spot, and bacterial wilt.

Dry Bean Disease Profiles II, EC1877 contains descriptions and photos of fusarium root rot, rhizoctonia root rot, pythium root rot, white mold and fusarium yellows.

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This guide contains over 250 words and phrases that will help English and Spanish speaking people who work with livestock to communicate more easily. This is a tool that farm and ranch workers, veterinarians, livestock producers, processing plant or feed company employees, and consultants will find useful.

This handy 4 ½ x 11, eight-panel guide is printed on heavy, coated paper, durable enough to carry along while working outside.

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Inglés a español: Una guía para la comunicación en las empresas de ganadería contiene más de 250 palabras y ayudará más a facilitar la comunicación entre las personas que hablan inglés y español, quienes trabajan con el ganado. Esta es una herramienta que los trabajadores de granja y rancho, veterinarios, productores de ganado, empleados de plantas procesadoras, compañías de alimento y consultantes encontrarán útil.

Esta guía útil de 8 paneles que miden 4 ½ por 11 pulgadas está impresa en papel pesado y revestido, bastante durable para llevar mientras trabaja en el campo.

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Disaster recovery is one way that youth and adult volunteers can get involved with their community in a time of crisis. As with any service project, it is important to be prepared and have resources that provide support in making a safe plan and successful event. This guide provides some tools to help assist in facilitating a successful event and help minimize potential risks. Learn More

Describes temperature conditions that cause winter injury, symptoms of injury at different spring growth stages, effects on yield, and management practices to use when wheat is injured. Includes 26 photos to aid in plant growth stage identification and illustrate injury at various growth stages. Learn More

If you’ve got grasshoppers in your field or garden and would like to identify the species, this comprehensive guide provides information on the 108 species of short-horned grasshoppers found in Nebraska. This 144-page, coil-bound handbook includes a short discussion of the state’s grasshopper populations, a key to grasshopper anatomy, and for each species it includes photos to aid in identification, a map of distribution in the state, and descriptions of species characteristics, including appearance, size, habitat, seasonality, Nebraska distribution, diet, and economic importance.

Authors are Mathew L. Brust, assistant professor of biology at Chadron State College; W. Wyatt Hoback, professor of biology at the University of Nebraska–Kearney; and Robert J. Wright, University of Nebraska–Lincoln Extension Entomology Specialist. Published by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension, this guide includes photographic contributions from state and federal offices and was funded by the Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ) section of USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS). The cost covers shipping and handling costs.

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