The Upper Big Blue Natural Resources District offers an incentive program for producers in portions of the Recharge Lake Watershed, the Beaver Creek Watershed, and some municipal Wellhead Protection...

Lake Hastings straddles the boundary between the Upper Big Blue and Little Blue NRDs and presents a unique opportunity for the entities to join forces with the City of Hastings to improve both urban...

Summer sampling of monitoring wells across the district show that groundwater nitrate levels continued to increase in some parts of the district over the past year. While no zone has moved into a new...

The district is looking for ways to incentivize producers who try fertilizer application using chemigation as a means of increasing adoption of this practice. Chemigation is a useful way to apply...

The Upper Big Blue NRD has partnered with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to take part in a research study focusing on investigating the vadose zone ( video). The vadose zone is the area beneath...

Whole field approach helps producers transition flood-prone cropland to pasture and maximize irrigation efficiency Gayle Marsh says one thing has made his family farm in central Nebraska successful...