Publications

Bumble bees are fascinating, beneficial insects that impact our lives each day. But these little pollinators need our help. Through this publication, learn why bumble bees are important and ways that you can create a artificial habitat and pollinator garden.

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This laminated poster is a reference guide for animal diseases (mainly cattle) and their potential for a major outbreak in animals and transmission to humans. It includes recommendations for disease containment. Learn More

This set of three Extension Circulars covers foliar, stalk rot, and ear rot diseases that affect corn and the management of these diseases.

Corn Disease Profiles I, EC1867, contains descriptions, photos and brief management suggestions of foliar corn diseases such as gray leaf spot, common rust, southern rust, eyespot, physoderma brown spot, Goss’s bacterial wilt and blight, Holcus spot, Stewart’s bacterial wilt, and various viral diseases including high plains disease, maize chlorotic mottle, maize dwarf mosaic, wheat streak mosaic, and corn lethal necrosis.

Corn Disease Profiles II, EC1868, contains descriptions, photos and brief management suggestions for anthracnose stalk rot, fusarium stalk rot, gibberella stalk rot, diplodia stalk rot, charcoal rot, and bacterial stalk rot.

Corn Disease Profiles III, EC1901, contains descriptions and photos of ear rot diseases and grain molds of corn with brief management suggestions. Diseases included are aspergillus ear rot; diplodia ear rot; fusarium ear rot; gibberella ear rot; pencillium ear rot; and cladosporium ear rot.

 

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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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Created by a team of Extension Food and Nutrition Specialists, Educators, and Assistants, Creating Balance with Food and Fitness is a four-part lesson explosion that provides food and nutrition educators with over 25 hours of programming for adult audiences.

Focused on the key messages of USDA’s Choose MyPlate and the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, this curriculum is designed to either stand alone as individual lessons or be used in sequence.

Each section is complete with a Leader and Participant Guide, Optional Activities, Handouts, Evaluation, and an accompanying PowerPoint®.

In Section 1, participants can learn the basics of managing health. Through all (10) 1-hour lessons learn about healthy role-modeling, MyPlate, portions sizes, nutrition facts labels, dining out, recipe modification, goal setting, and fad diets.

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Created by a team of Extension Food and Nutrition Specialists, Educators, and Assistants, Creating Balance with Food and Fitness is a four-part lesson explosion that provides food and nutrition educators with over 25 hours of programming for adult audiences.

Focused on the key messages of USDA’s Choose MyPlate and the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, this curriculum is designed to either stand alone as individual lessons or be used in sequence.

Each section is complete with a Leader and Participant Guide, Optional Activities, Handouts, Evaluation, and an accompanying PowerPoint®.

In Section 2, participants can discover food and food components they should reduce. These (5) 1-hour lessons cover topics such as drinking healthy beverages, sugar smarts, healthy snacking, sodium savvy, and finding out about fat.

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Created by a team of Extension Food and Nutrition Specialists, Educators, and Assistants, Creating Balance with Food and Fitness is a four-part lesson explosion that provides food and nutrition educators with over 25 hours of programming for adult audiences.

Focused on the key messages of USDA’s Choose MyPlate and the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, this curriculum is designed to either stand alone as individual lessons or be used in sequence.

Each section is complete with a Leader and Participant Guide, Optional Activities, Handouts, Evaluation, and an accompanying PowerPoint®.

In Section 3, participants can focus on food and nutrients they can increase. These (8) 1-hour lessons center on fruits and vegetables, grains, dairy, protein foods, potassium, calcium, vitamin D, and fiber filled foods..

Buy all 4 sections and receive 15% off.

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Created by a team of Extension Food and Nutrition Specialists, Educators, and Assistants, Creating Balance with Food and Fitness is a four-part lesson explosion that provides food and nutrition educators with over 25 hours of programming for adult audiences.

Focused on the key messages of USDA’s Choose MyPlate and the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, this curriculum is designed to either stand alone as individual lessons or be used in sequence.

Each section is complete with a Leader and Participant Guide, Optional Activities, Handouts, Evaluation, and an accompanying PowerPoint®.

In Section 4, participants will harness the power of physical activity. These final (3) 1-hour lessons will cover physical activity for youth and families, adults and special considerations for older adults.

Buy all 4 sections and receive 15% off.

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Crops of the Future Brochure. Learn More