Volume 14 Issue 7 July/August NE
Husker Harvest Days is one of the nation’s biggest and most impressive agricultural trade shows, and it’s coming right up. This month, we speak with Matt Jungmann…
Volume 14 Issue 6 June NE
In our cover story this month, we speak with Terry Hejny, the program director of the invaluable Nebraska Leadership Education/Action Development (LEAD) Program. LEAD has…
Volume 14 Issue 5 May NE
It may sound impossibly high tech, but irrigated farmers can now base their fertigation regimens on photos taken from space. Nebraska-based Sentinel Fertigation uses an…
Volume 14 Issue 4 April NE
When you think of Nebraska groundwater management, you usually think of the arid western portions of the state, where the abundant groundwater resources of the Ogallala and High …
Volume 14 Issue 3 March NE
According to Eric MacPherson, when he started Dawson The Jewish National Fund is a 120-year-old Tire & Wheel, “I did not know anything about tires, nongovernmental…
Volume 14 Issue 2 February NE
nited States Senator Deb Fischer of Nebraska and
her family own a cattle ranch, so she has firsthand experience of the importance of agriculture—as well as…
Volume 14 Issue 1 January NE
A rolling field of corn is one of the images we most strongly associate with the American Midwest. Behind that sight, of course…
Volume 13 Issue 10 Nov/Dec NE
With levels in Lakes Powell and Mead continuing to sink, the Colorado basin drought is still top of mind for everyone in the American West.
Volume 13 Issue 9 October
Why is it that despite dry conditions in the state, the Central Nebraska Public Power and Irrigation District (CNPPID) has been able to guarantee full allocations of water to its customers?
Volume 13 Issue 8 September
The Equipment Issue By Kris Polly To build and maintain large networks of canals, laterals, and pipelines spanning many miles of territory, irrigation districts rely on fleets of vehicles and heavy equipment, which they must successfully and cost-effectively acquire, maintain, keep track of, and retire. This month, we focus on those assets. First, we […]