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The North Platte River: Surface Water Irrigation Projects and Power Generation This presentation provides a basic history and information about the North Platte River U.S. Bureau of Reclamation projects – surface irrigation, power generation and other related irrigation and power generation projects – on the North Platte River drainage. By Gary Stone, Extension Educator, Panhandle Research & Extension Center. Dryland sugarbeets? Intriguing, but no recommendation yet Three years of research into growing sugarbeets without irrigation has yielded intriguing results. But UNL researchers are not yet ready to recommend beets as a dryland crop for western Nebraska. But the data do suggest that dryland sugarbeets are a potentially viable crop, given deep soils with adequate stored water at planting time and a favorable growing season. TEAMS work to keep kids involved in school, headed toward college Maybe it takes a village to raise a child, but it definitely takes a family to help a child earn a high-school diploma. Family support is the idea behind the TEAMS program (for Together Everyone Achieves More Success), designed to improve middle-school and high-school students’ chances of staying in school, graduating, and attending college. About two dozen middle-school students, ninth graders and their families are currently involved in TEAMS in Scotts Bluff County. Family Fun-Time: Make Cooking a Family Affair Make 2012 a year filled with family time! Make Cooking a Family Affair is one part of a five part Family Fun-Time series that focuses on how the whole family can be involved and practice healthy habits, while having fun at the same time. Ranch Practicum grant to aid beginning ranchers Grants totaling more than $671,000 will expand Ranch Practicum programs in Nebraska, Wyoming and Colorado and will target education of both beginning and established ranchers. Four ranch practicum programs will be offered per year: one in Wyoming, one in Nebraska and one in Colorado, as well as with a joint practicum involving both Wyoming and Nebraska. Until 2011 only two practicum programs were offered, the Nebraska practicum and the joint Wyoming and Nebraska practicum. Visiting scientist from India hopes new technique speeds wheat breeding process Dr. Bikram K. Das will spend the coming year at the Panhandle Research and Extension Center establishing a technique that he hopes will speed up the process of developing new wheat varieties. Das is a scientific officer in the Nuclear Agriculture and Biotechnology Division at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre at Mumbai, India. While in Scottsbluff, he is working with Dr. Dipak Santra, alternative crops breeding specialist. Goal of fund-raising drive: Boosting proso millet breeding program Crossroads Cooperative and the University of Nebraska Foundation have started a fund-raising drive to help support the proso-millet-breeding program at the University of Nebraska High Plains Ag Lab near Sidney and Panhandle Research and Extension Center at Scottsbluff. Food Questions? Find Answers at food.unl.edu A single University of Nebraska-Lincoln website now serves as the online portal to a wide variety of information about food from UNL experts. More Information You Can Use:
Farmers: Check the CropWatch web siteAnswers about crop varieties, fertilizer, irrigation, pest control, harvest, and many other issues are a click or two away on the University of Nebraska’s expanded and reorganized CropWatch web site. Click below to go directly to sugarbeets, dry edible beans, wheat, or potatoes. CENTENNIAL STORIES:
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