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.

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. 

This digital manual is NON-REFUNDABLE.

The 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 Water, Energy and Environment (DWEE) 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. It is available for free by contacting Leslie Johnson or DWEE.

This book is designed to help you keep a record of your farm's receipts, expenses, and other information to provide a foundation for farm management decisions. This 68-page book is divided into 10 main sections, each with specially designed forms.

• Farm Expenses
• Farm Receipts
• Record of Landlord Expense and Receipts
• Reporting Income Tax
• Social Security Record
• Crops Raised, Land Use and Farm Map
• Cash Flow Planning Form
• Net Worth Statement
• Notes
• Analysis of Farm

Take a step toward meeting your nutritional goals by learning how to adjust your favorite recipes in accordance with the Dietary Guidelines for Americans.

Topics covered in this publication include:

• Setting your nutritional goals
• Introducing gradual change to your family
• How to adjust recipes
• Sources of additional information
• The Dietary Guidelines
• Samples of modified recipes
• Tables of substitutions for popular products

This publication provides an overview of the use of fire in grassland management. It describes the history and importance of fire in the grassland ecosystem, how plants respond to fire, and the uses and potential benefits of prescribed fire.  It summarizes fire planning and legal and safety considerations and provides guidance on special uses of fire.

This guide includes a short history of grass development in the state and provides detailed illustrations to help identify plant parts, types of inflorescences, flower types and ligule types, shapes and margins to differentiate one species from another. The descriptions include the following: common and species name, life span, origin, season, growth form, flowering period, inflorescence characteristics (type, spikelets, awns, glumes and other distinguishing characteristics); vegetative characteristics (culms; sheaths; auricles; ligules; blades and rhizomes); distribution and habitat and uses and values (forage, establishment, restoration, wildlife, ornamental). Illustrations usually include the whole plant plus close-ups of plant parts significant to its identification.

Includes detailed information on the following as well as some plants closely related to these: big bluestem, sand bluestem; purple threeawn; sideoats grama; blue grama; hairy grama; buffalograss; prairie sandreed; windmillgrass; Bermudagrass; inland saltgrass; purple lovegrass; sand lovegrass; plains muhly; sandhill muhly; marsh muhly, switchgrass; sand paspalum, common reed; blowoutgrass; tumblegrass; little bluestem; Indiangrass; Johnsongrass; prairie cordgrass; alkali sacaton; tall dropseed; sand dropseed; prairie dropseed; purpletop; eastern gamagrass; prairie threeawn; field sandbur; hairy crabgrass; barnyardgrass; stinkgrass; bearded sprangletop; witchgrass; fall panicum; yellow foxtail; bristly foxtail; green foxtail; poverty dropseed; purple sandgrass; crested wheatgrass; redtop bent; creeping foxtail; meadow brome; smooth brome; bluejoint reedgrass; orchardgrass; Canada wildrye; tall wheatgrass; squirreltail; intermediate wheatgrass; quackgrass; western wheatgrass; slender wheatgrass; fowl mannagrass; needleandthread; porcupinegrass; foxtail barley; prairie junegrass; tall fescue; green needlegrass; scribner panicum; wilcox panicum; reed canarygrass; timothy; Canada bluegrass; mutton bluegrass; Kentucky bluegrass; Russian wildrye; Indian ricegrass; Japanese brome; Downy brome; goosegrass; little barley; annual bluegrass; sixweeks fescue; needleleaf sedge; threadleaf sedge; sun sedge; Nebraska sedge; yellow nutsedge; field horsetail; and American bulrush.

Cocina sin electricidad: Un recetario de preparación para emergencias de 72 horas

Cuando se va la luz, Cocina sin electricidad: Un recetario de preparación para emergencias de 72 horas te ayuda a preparar comidas simples y nutritivas para tu familia. Usa este recetario para mantener a tu familia segura, alimentada y lista con:

• Consejos para guardar y usar alimentos y agua durante una emergencia
• Formas seguras de cocinar usando parrillas, estufas de campamento o comidas sin calor
• Más de 20 recetas sencillas con alimentos no perecederos
• Ideas fáciles para comidas y refrigerios
• Una lista de compras para armar tu kit de alimentos para 72 horas
• Consejos de seguridad alimentaria: aprende qué alimentos conservar y cuáles desechar después de un corte de electricidad

Este recetario está disponible para descargar en inglés y español.

Prepárate. Mantente seguro. Come bien, incluso cuando no haya electricidad.

Cocina sin electricidad: Un recetario de preparación para emergencias de 72 horas

Cuando se va la luz, Cocina sin electricidad: Un recetario de preparación para emergencias de 72 horas te ayuda a preparar comidas simples y nutritivas para tu familia. Usa este recetario para mantener a tu familia segura, alimentada y lista con:

• Consejos para guardar y usar alimentos y agua durante una emergencia
• Formas seguras de cocinar usando parrillas, estufas de campamento o comidas sin calor
• Más de 20 recetas sencillas con alimentos no perecederos
• Ideas fáciles para comidas y refrigerios
• Una lista de compras para armar tu kit de alimentos para 72 horas
• Consejos de seguridad alimentaria: aprende qué alimentos conservar y cuáles desechar después de un corte de electricidad

Este recetario de 70 páginas, a todo color y con encuadernación en espiral, está impreso en papel resistente de gran grosor e incluye contenido en inglés y español. Está diseñado para quedar plano o mantenerse de pie, lo que facilita su uso mientras cocinas—perfecto para emergencias o para la preparación de comidas diarias.

Prepárate. Mantente seguro. Come bien, incluso cuando se va la luz.

Moisture and Mold to Healthy Homes - Basics for Consumers was created for consumers interested in solving moisture and mold problems.

Learn about basics in moisture reduction in residential homes to prevent mold occurrences and to manage mold.

Topics covered include:

• Inspection of the home for moisture and mold
• Exterior and interior inspection
• Cleaning up mold and moisture problems  

Run time: 26 minutes

This 24-page booklet, published through a partnership of Montana State University, EPA, and USDA, addresses consumer questions on biological pollutants like molds and dust mites, construction and remodeling by-products, combustion pollutants, lead dust, secondhand smoke, radon, problem household products, and asthma triggers.

It also offers a room-by-room home checklist of possible problem areas.

Format: 24 pages, 51/2 x 8 ½ inches

From Moisture and Mold to Healthy Homes - Basics for Housing Professionals was created for professionals involved in many aspects of housing from managing, selling, to maintenance and inspection.

Learn about basics in moisture reduction in residential homes to prevent mold occurrences and to manage mold.

Topics covered include:

• Inspection of the home for moisture and mold
• Exterior and interior inspection
• Cleaning up mold and moisture problems

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.

This set of three pocket-sized, brochures include:

• Grasshopper Identification Guide for Rangeland Grasshoppers - Fall/Spring Feeding Species, EC1567. Photos and descriptive details to aid in the identification of the major summer feeding grasshopper species in Nebraska range and pastures. Also includes biology and management as well as illustrations to identify the growth stage of nymphs.
• Grasshopper Identification Guide for Rangeland Grasshoppers - Fall/Spring Feeding Species, EC1568. Photos and descriptive details to aid in the identification of the major fall/spring feeding grasshopper species in Nebraska range and pastures. Also includes biology and management as well as illustrations to identify the growth stage of nymphs.
• Grasshopper Identification Guide for Cropland Grasshoppers - Summer Feeding Species, EC1569. Photos and descriptions to identify the major summer feeding grasshopper species in Nebraska cropland. Also includes biology and management as well as illustrations to identify the growth stage of nymphs.

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.

This guide provides information on problems commonly associated with woody and herbaceous perennials of the upper Midwest. For each problem/pest there is a photo to aid in identification and detailed information on when and where the problem or pest is likely to be observed, signs and symptoms of activity, and treatment methods. Charts for each plant type help identify pests most likely to be causing damage at that time in the season on a specific area of the plant. For example, the chart for the daylilly entry indicates that damage to the flower between May 1 and May 10 would most likely be caused by thrips. Below the chart is information on the identification and treatment of thrips.

196 pages, coil bound, full color images throughout

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.

In addition to showing the English to Spanish translation, the pronunciation of each word and phrase is provided. For example:

English phrase: Does the animal appear___?

Spanish pronunciation: Dos da AH-ni-mal a-PIR ___?

Spanish translation: El animal parece ____?

English pronunciation: el ah-ni-MAHL pah-RAY-say____?

Words needed to fill in the blank, such as to limp and sick, are provided so the sentence can be completed. (To see how this appears in the guide, click on the PDF link below.)

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

View a sample.

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.

Adicionalmente a mostrar las traducciones de inglés a español, se indica la pronunciación de cada palabra y frase. Por ejemplo:

Frase en inglés: Does the animal appear___?
Pronunciación de español: Dos da AH-ni-mal a-PIR ___?

Traducción en español: El animal parece ____?

Pronunciación en inglés: el ah-ni-MAHL pah-RAY-say____?

Las palabras que se necesitan para completar la frase, tal como cojear y enfermo se proporcionan para completar la oración. (Para que usted vea como aparece esto en la guía, haga clic en el vínculo de PDF en seguida).

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.

ver una muestra.

Plant selection is essential to developing an attractive and effective bioretention or rain garden for your home landscape. Featuring plants best suited to the northern Great Plains, this UNL Extension circular provides plant photos, descriptions, and tables of plant attributes to help you make a more informed plan before heading to a nursery. Sprinkled throughout this 64-page guide are photos of how recommended plants have been used in bioretention gardens in the Midwest.

The authors offer a short discussion of what plant attributes to consider when planning your garden and tables of plant attributes to help you narrow your search. Are you looking for plants to use on the top of your berm in full sun or at the bottom of your berm in full shade? Select the table that best fits this attribute and then use the information in each table to further explore and then narrow your options. Tables provide approximate heights for the varieties listed as well as their bloom time, bloom colors, and seasonal area of interest (for example, foliage color in the fall).

The next, larger section of this guide includes photos and information on form, foliage, flowers, height/spread, location, comments, and related species and cultivars for:

• 78 herbaceous flowers and ferns
• 20 grasses, rushes, and sedges
• 14 shrubs and small trees

By Steven Rodie, ASLA, and Kim Todd, both UNL landscape horticulture specialists, with Richard Sutton, FASLA, professor, and Andrew Szatko, graduate student, both in the UNL Department of Agronomy and Horticulture

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

Riparian buffers are a best management practice to protect stream water quality, reduce streambank erosion, and provide wildlife habitat.  Riparian buffers may fulfill conservation program requirements and serve as an income source for federal, state and local cost-share programs or the production and sale of specialty crops. These two, 4-page publications guide you through design, plant selection, planting, and maintenance of riparian buffers. 

You also may be interested in a related UNL Extension DVD, Installing and Maintaining Your Riparian Buffer. 

Precision Agriculture: Satellite-Based Auto-Guidance, EC706, looks at types of auto-guidance systems, how they work, performance criteria and assessment, and what factors to consider when selecting an auto-guidance system for your operation. 6 pages

Precision Agriculture: Applications of Remote Sensing in Site-Specific Management, EC702,  explores the development of remote sensing systems and looks at the characteristics of these systems.  It looks at potential applications of the data, particularly related to soil characteristics, yield predictions, crop monitoring, weed detection, and irrigation. 6 pages

Precision Agriculture: Listening to the Story Told by Yield Maps, EC704, describes how yield mapping collects georeferenced data on crop yield and field characteristics, such as soil moisture content, during harvest. Using field and industry examples, this publication explains the science and technology behind yield mapping and how growers can use it to improve their operations. 8 pages

Precision Agriculture: Site-Specific Management of Soil pH, EC705, describes how site specific management can provide positive economic and environmental impacts for modern crop production.  It addresses questions related to soil pH, lime requirements, and quality of data used to prescribe site-specific management of soil pH. 6 pages

Precision Agriculture: Weed Targeting Herbicide Management, EC708, looks at why site-specific herbicide application is an effective way to minimize herbicide costs, maximize weed control, and prevent unnecessary environmental waste.  This circular provides basic guidance on site-specific weed management. 6 pages

Windbreaks reduce wind speed and create sheltered zones for growing crops and raising livestock. Windbreaks also protect living and working areas, and provide critical wildlife habitat in a landscape dominated by agricultural crops. This set of four Extension Circulars covers the basics of how windbreaks work, and how to set up, manage and renovate windbreaks.

How Windbreaks Work (EC1763) explains how windbreak structure -- height, density, number of rows, species composition, length, orientation and continuity -- determines how effective the windbreak will be in reducing wind speed and altering microclimate.

Windbreak Establishment (EC1764) contains information on how to plan and establish a windbreak uniquely suited to a particular site, including site preparation, plant material selection, weed control and replanting.

Windbreak Management (EC1768) details how to maintain the health and vigor of a windbreak throughout its life cycle. To-dos include weed control, protection from large animals and rodents, corrective pruning, insect and disease control and property chemical use.

Windbreak Renovation (EC1777) is a step-by-step guide to renovating older or neglected windbreaks to make them functional and effective again. Steps include identifying the primary purpose of the windbreak, evaluating the current condition of the windbreak and implementing suitable renovation techniques.

Format: Two four-page and two six-page Extension Circulars

Windbreaks reduce wind speed and create sheltered zones for growing crops and raising livestock. Windbreaks also protect living and working areas, and provide critical wildlife habitat in a landscape dominated by agricultural crops.  This set of four Extension Circulars explains how to plant windbreaks to improve the local environment for wildlife, field crops, and fruit and vegetable crops.

Windbreaks and Wildlife (EC1771) provides an overview of how windbreaks can benefit wildlife and what trees, shrubs, and planting designs to consider for various wildlife habitats.

Windbreaks in Sustainable Agricultural Systems (EC1772) contains information on field, livestock, and farmstead windbreaks and how to integrate these with agroforestry practices to create sustainable agricultural systems that enhance the local environment and add profitability.

Field Windbreaks (EC1778) explains how field windbreaks can increase crop yields while reducing inputs and improving both environmental quality and production efficiency.

Windbreaks for Fruit and Vegetable Crops (EC1779) contains information on how wind affects vegetable and fruit crops and how to use windbreaks to improve growing conditions, yield, and quality of fruit and vegetable crops.

Format: One eight-page, one four-page, and two six-page Extension Circulars

Children are often the unseen victims of divorce. When their parents divorce, children are affected physically, emotionally, and mentally. Kids Talk About Divorce — Adolecent Edition is a research-based curriculum developed to help children in grades 6-8 or young adults whose parents are experiencing a divorce or were recently divorced. The course, which includes many activities, is designed to be taught in eight consecutive 40- to 50-minute sessions. It can be taught by a school employee, such as a school counselor or nurse, during lunch time, study hall, or after school.

Course topics include:

• Developing children’s awareness of the complexity of divorce
• Empowering them to cope with the divorce process
• Increasing children’s coping skills
• Strengthening their self-esteem

Companion animals play an important role in the lives of many Americans. The companion animal industry has limitless unique opportunities for those wishing to seek a career working to improve the lives of dogs, cats, rabbits and more.

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Animal Science Department hosted a two-night series on companion animal careers in November 2008. This conference took an in-depth look into the different sectors within the companion animal industry. Professionals who work with companion animals, both as a full time career or through volunteer work, were interviewed to gain their thoughts on the industry and their suggestions for individuals seeking careers working with companion animals.

Segments Include:

• Introduction to Companion Animals
• Companion Animal-Related Career Opportunities
• Veterinary and Animal Health Care
• Pet Food Industry
• Nestle Purina PetCare
• Products and Services
• Animal Assisted Therapy Programs
• Animal Training
• Exotic Animals
• Recommendations for Youth
• 4-H Youth Organization
• Obtaining a College Degree
• Experiences of UNL
• Career Exploration at UNL
• Conclusion

Run Time: 120 minutes.

Weeds are often the most visible landscape pests and a major problem for professional landscape managers and homeowners.  Weeds compete with desirable plants for space, light, water, and nutrients and detract from the appearance and function of landscapes.

This 8-page guide covers common:

• Integrated weed management strategies for landscapes;
• Recommendations for how best to use herbicides as part of an integrated plan;
• A table of common landscape weeds, including where they’re typically found and recommended timing of control;
• Photographs of 32 common weed species to aid in identification for more effective control.

This DVD includes the basics of soybean aphid management.

Topics Include:

• Aphid Facts
• Scouting Tips
• Aphid Identification
• Management Tips

Run Time: 12 minutes.