This week’s CropWatch features information on a number of extension and educational opportunities to be offered throughout the winter and early spring.

Be sure to take time to check out these programs and how they can help you improve your operation in 2008.

CropWatch has been posted to the Web. Updates to CropWatch will be posted intermittently in January and February and full issues will begin again in March 2008.

Have a safe and happy holiday season and a very Happy New Year.

Lisa Jasa
CropWatch Editor
University of Nebraska-Lincoln

In this week’s CropWatch:

• Long-term No-till Outyields Tilled Comparisons
• As Vegetable Oil Demand Rises, so Does Potential for Alternative Oilseed Crops
• Balance Pasture Types for a Long Grazing Season
• Don’t let Nitrates Kill Your Cattle
• Alfalfa Varieties With Resistance To Potato Leafhoppers a Good Bet
• Consider Grass-Alfalfa Mixtures Instead of Pure Alfalfa
• Growing Crops For Fuel Topic of December Meetings
• 12 Crop Protection Clinics Scheduled for January
• Crop TEC Ag Expo and Conference Jan. 3-4 at Gering
• Aurora Ag Day: Fueling Our Future
• Chemigation Training this Winter
• Private Pesticide Applicator Training Begins in January
• CNMP Workshops in January and February
• Land Application Training Field Days Offered in January, February
• ‘Grow Your Own Nitrogen’ Workshop Jan. 12
• Southeast Nebraska Hosting Inventors, Investors and Entrepreneurs Club
• Irrigation Meetings Target Limited Water Strategies
• Sorghum Cropping Profitability Seminars at 3 Sites Jan. 29-31
• Great Plains Vegetable Growers Conference Jan. 11-12
• Community-Supported Ag and High Tunnels the Focus of Preconference Workshops
• High Plains Ag Lab Research Update Feb. 27
• Cattle Workshop December 18 at Laird, Colorado
• USDA Research Seeking Solutions to Wheat Nemeses
• 50% of Nebraska Livestock Premises Registered
• K-State: It´s Too Soon for Conclusions on Feeding Ethanol Byproduct to Cattle
• Use Caution When Caring for Storm-Damaged Trees
• Virtual 4-H Club Begins in Spring
• Market Journal: Estimating the Cost of Winter Grazing
• Market Journal: Direct Marketing Beef
• Web Site Can Help You Repay Debts