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Gage County
1115 West Scott St.
Beatrice NE 68310
Phone: (402) 223-1384
FAX: (402) 223-1370

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News Columns written by Paul Hay, Extension Educator

Beef Farm Management/Economics
Natural Resources Crops
Livestock Miscellaneous
Horticulture Law & Government
Pests

Livestock

Horses
-- Helping Horses Keep Their Cool During Hot Temperatures
-- Horses Require Time, Energy, and Money
-- Horse Pasture for the Acreage Owner

Poultry
-- Nebraska Poultry Production

Sheep
-- Sheep Disease Threat Can Be Eliminated (Scrapie)
-- Winter Cooties (lice, ticks, mange, etc.)

Beef

-- Beef Cow Rations
-- Calf Scours, Managing
-- Cow Stayability
-- Cull Cows Have Higher Value Now
-- Drought Management, feeding damaged crops

-- Future of the Small Beef Producers
-- Grazing Issues - Fall
-- Grazing Crop Residues - Risk and Reward
-- Livestock Care in Winter Storms
-- Selection of Breeding Stock
-- Snow & Ice Could Mean Nasty Calving Season

Crops

-- Agronomy Research, Kansas State
-- Alfalfa and Wheat
-- Bin and Equipment Maintenance will Help Ensure Grain Quality
-- Biotech Crops, Myths About
-- Carbon, More Than One Answer
--Corn Fungicides
-- Crop Rotation Studies
-- Crop Rotation, Advanced Concepts
-- Dry Weather, Agriculture Coping With
-- Fall Harvest Challenges
-- Fall Weed Control Offers Rewards -- Fertilizer Research Past and Present
-- Fertilizing Winter Wheat
-- Fertilizer Surprises
-- Forage Corner- Brown Midrib, Leafhopper Resistant Alfalfa
-- Forage Supplies Tight
-- Fragile Crop Residue
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-- Glyphosate Resistance is Here
-- Grain Aeration
-- Grain, Cool for Storage
-- Harvest Safety
-- Hay is A-Changing
-- Hay's Tips on Hay
-- Herbicide Carryover, Beware of
-- Insecticides, On-Board

-- July is Ag Month (History of Soil Conservation in Gage County)
-- Lime Response
-- Making Pasture Fertilizing Pay
-- No-Till Cadre
-- Milo Has A Bright Future
-- Milo Production Tips
-- Tillage Survey Revealing
-- No-Till Dakota Style
-- No-Till Dakota Style - Part II
-- No-Till Conference (03), Ideas From
-- No-Till Milo Production - Starter Fertilizer
-- No-Till is For the Worms
-- No-Till Conference 06, Ideas from
-- Planters, Let's Talk About
-- Soil Conservation, Wow, I'm Impressed!
-- Soil Sampling is Basis of Recommendations
-- Soil Temperatures, Life Goes On After 50
-- Soybean Cyst Nematode
-- Soybean Nemesis Current and Future Challenge
-- Soybeans, The Future of
-- Soybean Seed, Plan Ahead
-- Spring Crop Tips
-- Stretching Forage Resources
-- Stored Grain is Alive
-- TDN the Grass and RFV the Alfalfa
-- Tillage and Carbon
-- Water, Saving for the Next Crop
-- Wheat, Be Alert or Take Your Chances
-- Wheat - The Opportunity Crop
-- Winter Wheat, Fertilizing

Horticulture
-- Apples and Most Fruit Are Not True to seed
-- Conserving Water in the Landscape
-- Diseases Of Lawns & Pests
-- Don't Hurry Spring
-- Fall Landscapes (bagworms, tree leaves, dandelions, winter visitors)
-- Fall Weed Control Offers Rewards
-- Fruit Tree Selection in Nebraska
-- Garden Cleanup
-- Grass Clipping in Town or on Acreages
-- Keep the Vegetables Coming
--- Lawn Weed Killers
-- Lime Response - lawns & gardens
Planning for Trees a Must
-- Public Gardens for Enjoyment and Learning
-- Rambles Through the Brambles (common mowing problem (donuts, mosquitoes, west nile)
-- Scotch Pine Under Attack
-- The Stately American Elm
-- Tomato Diseases DVD available
-- Trees Have Bad Habits
-- Watering Lawns and Landscapes
-- Trees Need Winter Water (and other winter care tips)

Pests
-- Are You Willing To Share Your Home? (mice)
-- Chiggers, The Truth About
-- Army Cutworm
-- Detoxify Cockroaches
-- Grasshopperville USA
-- Household Migration
-- Nightcrawlers
-- Oh Those Meese (mice)
-- Skunk Attack - Retaliation Could Be Smelly
-- Spiders at Home and Work
-- Spring Maladies (bagworms, clover mites, box elder bugs, ants vs termites & tubular bee boxes)
-- Starlings
-- Summer Bug Attack (grasshoppers & Chinch bugs)
-- The Thundering Herd

Law & Government
-- Used Oil and Nebrasa Taxes

Farm Management/Economics
-- Ag Policy and Lease Comments
-- Agriculture, Opportunities Galore
-- Centerpivots, Winter Care of
-- Earthworms Improve Soil
-- Efficient Farms - Not Always Largest
-- Equipment Rental - Common Question
-- Farm Leases, Active Topic
-- Farm Leases, Changing
-- Farm Profitability
-- 2006 Farm Profitability Positive
-- Hunting Leases - An Income Option
-- Landlord Choices Vital
-- Leasing Land - Landlord
-- Land Rent - Cash or Share
-- Livestock Production Requires Planning
-- Nebraska Ethanol on the Move (Guest column by Randy Pryor)
-- Nitrogen Prices Zoom
-- Pastures, Still Recovering from Dry weather
-- Rising Costs Offset Record Prices
-- Soil Conservation & Watershed Management
--Sustainable is Not Enough
-- Technologies to Conserve Irrigation Water
-- Under the Residue
-- Well and Septic Questions Common
-- Yields, Higher, Adjusting for

Natural Resources
-- Forestry in Nebraska
--Habitat Crisis
-- Nebraska Conservation Trees
-- Weather Forecasts, A New Look
-- Wildlife, Focus on
-- Wildlife, Backyard

Miscellaneous Topics
-- 4-H: Simple Projects, Compound Impact
-- 4-H Headed to Washington D.C. (07)
-- Acreage Owners Must Plan Utopia
-- Biodiesel Technology Improves
-- Bottled Water, Mysteries of
-- Carbon Based Energy System
-- Chimney Cleaning Season
-- Christmas Trees, Nebraska Style
-- Conserve Fuel to Save Money
-- Diversity, Learning About
-- Flag Presentation Corrected
-- Gleanings from "2007 Solution Days"
-- Kids Say the Darnest Things
-- Radon
-- Pesticide Containers, Recycling
-- Pesticide Poisoning
-- Rambles Through the Brambles (Herbicide Drift Potential, Mosquitores & West Nile, Soybean Aphids & rust, Smut, Donuts
-- Reducing Carbon Means Lifestyle Changes
-- Spring Has Icicles (Freeze Damage)
-- Trucking in Gage County (safety tips)
-- the University of Nebraska, Proud of
-- Water Testing Important, Home
-- Wastewater Treatments, Home
-- Twenty-One Orphans (Preserving Crop Germplast)
-- Wastewater Treatments, Home, Septic System and Lagoon Maintenance
-- Website Activity, Education Methods Changing
-- Web Based Surprises
-- Weeds on the Acreage
-- West Nile Virus
-- Thirty Years of Being Safe(Youth Tractor Safety)
-- Pump and Dump (Heating Alternative)


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to Contact our Staff

Paul C Hay, Extension Educator
Jane Esau,, 4-H Program
Dianne Swanson,, Extension Educator
Elizabeth Killinger, Extension Educator
General Address: gage-county@unl.edu

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