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...

One important benefit of cover crops is that they can provide another option in controlling weed populations--especially weeds that can resist herbicides. Weeds that have evolved characteristics that...

In recent years, the district has seen an increase in the number of chemigation permits granted as producers are continuing to adopt chemical and fertilizer application through their irrigation...