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Jan 28, 10:00 AM
 First National Bank

Feb 10, All Day
 Lied Lodge and Conference Center

Feb 18, 9:00 AM
 First National Bank

Mar 3, 10:00 AM
 First National Bank

Mar 17, 10:00 AM
 First National Bank

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What is SARE?

Funded by the USDA, the national Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education program supports and promotes sustainable farming and ranching.  We offer competitive grants and educational opportunities for producers, scientists, educators, institutions, organizations and others exploring sustainable agriculture. 

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 Ag Extension Educators and producers visit an organic farm on the Southeast Nebraska Diversified Ag Tour. 

Rural Advantage & Healthy Farms Conference - February 10 & 11

Are you looking for new innovative ways to utilize your agricultural products? Do you want to benefit from the many advantages of living, working, and raising a family in the country? Do you need help developing entrepreneurial ideas that can impact the world around you? The 2012 Rural Advantage & Healthy Farms Conference provides the perfect opportunity for you to acquire useful information on numerous alternatives to expand your vision and ideas into reality. The conference will be held on February 10-11, 2012, at the Lied Lodge & Conference Center in Nebraska City, NE. Details regarding the conference and registration are available in the brochure (PDF, 2 pgs, 502 KB). For more information contact Gary Lesoing at the Nemaha County Extension Office, 402-274-4755.

 

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Publications - Resources

Nebraska SARE Webinars

 

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Aronia Berries - An emerging diversified crop in Nebraska

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Nebraska SARE Videos

SARE Webinars

Recorded Webinars

Climate Variability and Change:  Global to Local Perspective

"Climate Variability and Change: Global to Local Perspective" – Recording (January 19, 2012)
This webinar features Dr. Tapan B. Pathak, Extension Educator in Climate Variability School of Natural Resources.

Managing Drought Risk on the Ranch

"Managing Drought Risk on the Ranch" - Recording (November 18, 2011)
This webinar features Tonya Haigh, Rural Sociologist with the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln. She presents a new web-based resource and drought planning methodology for rangeland managers and advisers.

What You Need to Know about 2011 Farmer/Rancher Grants, Youth Educator Grants and Youth Grants

“What You Need to Know about 2011 Farmer/Rancher Grants, Youth Educator Grants and Youth Grants” - Recording (September 22, 2011)
This webinar was presented by Gary Lesoing, Nebraska State SARE Coordinator and University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension Educator in Nemaha County.

Adapting Cover Crop Management for Nebraska

"Adapting Cover Crop Management for Nebraska" - Recording (August 5, 2011)
This is a continuation of the Nebraska SARE Webinar Series which began last year. Sam Wortman, UNL PhD candidate in Agronomy, presented information on:
I. General benefits of cover crops
II. Cover crop selection and management
III. Cover crop research in Nebraska (since 1980)
IV. Reduced- and no-till organic systems with cover crops
V. Cover crop mixtures

Long-Term Rotation Experiment Evaluates Organic and Conventional Cropping Systems in Nebraska

"Long-Term Rotation Experiment Evaluates Organic and Conventional Cropping Systems in Nebraska" - Recording (June 30, 2011)
In 1975, Dr. Warren Sahs, Superintendent of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Mead Field Laboratory (now the Agricultural Research and Development Center or ARDC) and other agricultural scientists thought it was important to establish a long-term experiment that evaluated and compared a crop rotation under organic and conventional management systems and a corn monoculture system. The experiment was initiated in 1976. The experiment was managed consistently from 1976 through 1992. From 1993 through the present, new crop rotations were developed to be consistent with crop rotations practiced today. Gary Lesoing, Nebraska State SARE Coordinator and Extension Educator, managed the experiment from 1980 - 1991. He will provide the background and summarize research data collected during the first 16 years of this project. Sam Wortmann, UNL PhD candidate in Agronomy, will explain the rotations and research that has been conducted in this experiment in recent years. Sam conducted his research for his Master Degree on this experiment.

 

 For information regarding other previously recorded webinars go to our Nebraska SARE Webinars page.

If you have questions in regards to any of the SARE Webinars, feel free to contact Gary Lesoing at (402)274-4755 or glesoing2@unl.edu.