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December 3: Carbonomics and Climate Science at the Project GROW Winter Workshop

December 3: Carbonomics and Climate Science at the Project GROW Winter Workshop

Second annual soil health event offers free info to growers

There’s a lot going on in the ground beneath our feet. The interactions between soil, plants, fungi, and creatures such as earthworms and microorganisms are as dynamic and complex as systems of trade within a nation’s economy, says Keith Berns, no-till farmer and...Read More

​Camping Sites to Close for the Season at Local Recreation Areas

​Camping Sites to Close for the Season at Local Recreation Areas

The Upper Big Blue Natural Resources District will close the RV pads and tent camping sites at Recharge Lake (York) and Pioneer Trail (Aurora) Recreation Areas for the winter season on Monday, October 28. However, the day use area, outdoor amphitheater, picnic shelters, hiking and biking trails, playground equipment, boat dock, and boat ramp...Read More

Healthy Soils, Healthy Harvest

Healthy Soils, Healthy Harvest

Cover Crops Make All the Difference

On a windy autumn day, Dan Leininger, a water conservationist with the Upper Big Blue Natural Resources District, stands in a field of ripe soybeans on the northeast side of York. The crop at the Project GROW demonstration plot is thigh-high, the rows of fuzzy bean pods a muted golden brown...Read More

The Weather Watcher

The Weather Watcher

NRD Employee Earns National Recognition

“Do you see those little, bumpy thunderheads?” Tom Johnson asks, pointing to a distant cloudbank to the southeast just before sunrise. “I noticed some lightning there earlier. I’ve been keeping an eye on it.” This is typical for Johnson, who is always quick to note a shift in the wind...Read More

​Recharge Revisited

​Recharge Revisited

Local lake depth measured

It’s a warm fall day at Recharge Lake in York. High winds make the trees and tall grasses dance on the banks as the crickets and cicadas sing their last songs of the season. A young man in camo chest waders and a ball cap stands on the water’s edge, a large remote control in his hands. His gaze is...Read More

Max Profit vs. Max Production

Max Profit vs. Max Production

UNL report examines economics of N fertilizer usage 

In these challenging times for the agriculture economy, it’s important to carefully evaluate the return on investment of nitrogen fertilizer at the individual producer level. According to a recently published article from Cornhusker Economics, excessive use of nitrogen does...Read More

​NRD Managers to Participate in State Infrastructure Seminar

​NRD Managers to Participate in State Infrastructure Seminar

Congressman Adrian Smith (R-NE) will host an Infrastructure Seminar in Hastings on October 3, 2019. David Eigenberg, general manager of the Upper Big Blue NRD, and colleagues from the Central Platte NRD and Little Blue NRD, will participate in a panel discussion at the event on the topic of Water and Energy Management and Infrastructure. A...Read More

​Grant Approved for Outdoor Classroom

​Grant Approved for Outdoor Classroom

York High School students will soon have an addition to their science curriculum, thanks to grant funding from the Upper Big Blue Natural Resources District. A grant request for an outdoor classroom has been approved by the board of directors, providing $1,000 for the project through the Upper Big Blue NRD’s Educational Capital Projects Fund (ECAP...Read More

Burke Scholars Hard at Work

Burke Scholars Hard at Work

For sophomore agribusiness majors Madi Baker and Caden Theis, college thus far has been fun and challenging. Both Baker, at Concordia University, and Theis, at Doane University, are being helped along in their studies by scholarships from the Upper Big Blue NRD.  

Baker and Theis are recipients of 2019 Raymond A. Burke...Read More

Importance of Maintaining/Rebuilding Nebraska’s Dam Infrastructure

Importance of Maintaining/Rebuilding Nebraska’s Dam Infrastructure

Nebraskans have made a large investment in building dams across the state.  There are over 2,900 dams on the Nebraska Dam Inventory; 57 percent of them are privately owned. Most of these dams are considered small (storage of 15-250 acre-feet). Forty-three percent of Nebraska’s dams are more than 50 years old, and nearly 500 Nebraska dams are...Read More

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