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Nebraska Extension Ag Economist Jim Jansen breaks down results of the 2018 Farm Real Estate Survey released last week. Elwood's Pride of the Prairie 4-H Club, one of 25 in Nebraska receiving the Governor's Ag Excellence Award, plans hands-on Wyoming wildfire recovery. Meteorologist Brian Bledsoe compares averages to early 2018 severe weather and hail damage.

NDA Director Steve Wellman shares his reaction from his trip, which promoted NE agriculture and provided opportunities to discuss trade and other ag issues. Interview with Steve Nelson, President of NE Farm Bureau, on their listening sessions this week. Kansas Congressman Dr. Roger Marshall talks about his trip to the border this past weekend.

Stonie Cooper, Nebraska Mesonet Manager, is filling in for Al Dutcher discussing updates to the drought monitor after rains this past week and what we might expect headed into next week. The House of Representatives narrowly passed (213 - 211) the Farm Bill yesterday. We hear comments from House Ag Committee Chair Mike Conaway on what is next for the measure. Fridays in the Field takes us back for...

David Bracht, Director of the Nebraska Energy Office, shares updates on ethanol and other renewable fuels across the state! Pioneer Agronomy Manager Paul Carter discusses Pioneer's ongoing 30-year corn plant density research. Norfolk Mayor, Josh Moenning talks about his recent trade mission to Vietnam and what Nebraska Ag products they are hungry for.

With Eric Schultz, BASF Technical Service Representative. Ulysses NE Pork Producer Lukas Fricke has developed ChorChek to make life a bit easier when it comes to paperwork for the livestock producer...but it has grown beyond that. We learn more about Virtual Incision Corporation, a company at Nebraska Innovation Campus focused on developing miniaturized robots for surgery procedures. Co-Founder an...

Emily Skor, CEO of Growth Energy shares information about expanding E15 year-round and refiner hardship waivers granted by the EPA The Shell Creek Watershed made history last Friday as it was removed from the Impaired Waters list. Governor Ricketts, EPA's Pruitt, local landowners, and students discuss the significance of the de-listing. Peter Navarro on China...during a White House Briefing this m...

Teri Edeal with NRCS talks about being the original fire starter and bringing prescribed burns to the central Nebraska producers tool box. Former Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack shares his thoughts on the tariff's & the industry EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt was in Nebraska last week. We hear his comments on the Renewable Fuels Standard and his opinion on expanding E15 sales year-round.

Nebraska State Ag Climatologist Al Dutcher looks at the heat this weekend and what's to follow We end our weeklong coverage of international trade by recapping the International Trade Town Hall in Lexington with stakeholder and Dawson County Banker Earl Linderman. We hear from corn and soybean farmer Andrew Neujahr on this weeks Friday's in the Field. Andrew is a beginning farmer near Waverly.

NCBA's Alisa Harrison, discusses the 360 degree virtual reality ranch videos showcasing U.S. beef production at a major food gathering in Aspen, CO. Jay Rempe, Nebraska Farm Bureau Economist, ties together why exports are important from the national trade balance all the way to "main street" in Rural Nebraska. The USDA Undersecretary for Trade Ted McKinney, discusses his Japanese trade mission thi...

Eric Schultz, BASF Technical Service Representative, talking about mid-post herbicide applications for soybeans. Craig Uden, former NCBA President and Dawson County Resident, talks about how important exports are to Nebraska and Dawson county beef producers. This is the 2nd of a 4-part series on export impact at the county level. Tomorrow we take a look at how that export dollar makes it back to m...

KS Congressman talks about the works of the farm bill & the issues with trade Scott Mcpheeters a Dawson/Lincoln County Farmer talks about the importance of export markets at the county level. This is the first of 4 news makers that take a look at export markets importance at the county level. Later on we will look at the beef market and the economic impact to main street. There are reports of bact...

Brandy VanDeWalle gives details about the upcoming Youth Crop Scouting Contest set to be held next month. With a drought across the southern plains, some custom harvest crews are scrambling for acres. We learn more about the struggles of the 2018 custom harvest with Tracy of Zeorian Harvesting of Manly, Nebraska. Strahinja Steponovich Nebraska Extension Educator in Grant. Talks about how wheat and...

Nebraska State Climatologist Al Dutcher VP of Legislative Affairs for the NE Cattlemen, Laura Field discusses working with the NE State Patrol to establish livestock hauling protocols. Fridays in the Field visits with Nathan Schole from northern Dodge County, near Hooper.

Technical Service Representative, Brady Kappler, discusses herbicide options for soybeans as well as stewardship resources. Chad Moyer reports from World Pork Expo in Des Moines.

North American Meat Institute Senior VP of Public Affairs Janet Riley talks about why beef is important in a child's diet JD Alexander is a cattle producer from Pender NE and he spoke with Susan Littlefield at World Meat Congress in Dallas last week Courtney Hall is Sustainability Manager for Cargill. She takes us through why the company is actively studying better ways to conserve water.

Co-Hosts of the 2018 Cattlemen's Ball Rob and Natalie Marsh and Committee Chairman Janice Wiedle review this year's event. Ken Maschhoff talks with Susan Littlefield from the World Meat Congress on trade, farm bill and their effects on the pork industry. Nebraska State Senator Curt Friesen signs-on to a Growth Energy letter urging regulation change to allow year-round retailing of E-15 blended fue...

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Featuring Brady Kappler, BASF Technical Service Representative, discussing plant health applications for corn. Featuring John Gonzalez, Associate Professor of Muscle Biology/Meat Science with Kansas State studying the effects of transportation on pigs. Dakota Lovett, President of the Nebraska Junior Angus Association and cattle producer from Blue Hill visits with Alex Voichoskie to give a cattle p...

Janet Riley, Senior VP Public Affairs for the North American Meat Institute on their latest project partnered with the Beef Checkoff to increase kid's nutrition by pairing fruits and vegetables with beef. Discussion with Bethany Bergstom of Axtell, an NU graduate student on Master's work she is doing in entomology on various aspects of controlling the Wheat Stem Sawfly. Joan Ruskamp has the Beef C...

Dr. Christopher Neal discusses the University of Nebraska's 'Irrigation Innovation Consortium' which addresses water scarcity with irrigation technology. A new blending terminal in Columbus held a ribbon cutting Thursday and soybean farmer Greg Anderson talks about the importance of the fuel to Nebraska. The Ag Pen Pal Program is seeking farmers and ranchers to sign up for the program, now in its...

BASF Technical Service Representative, Eric Schultz, giving a planting and weed control update. Mike Deering is the Executive Vice President of the Missouri Cattleman's Association brings us up-to-date on Missouri labeling legislation on meat vs. "fake meat" . Congressman Adrian Smith talks about the status of the 2018 Farm Bill that failed in the U.S. House of Representatives last week.

Dean Groskurth, USDA NASS Northern Plains Regional Field Office Director, discussing the upcoming survey they're conducting with producers here in NE to look at crops, stocks, inventories, and values. Mark Goes, Southeast Community College agriculture instructor, discusses delayed cool season forage growth, and provides tips on determining when pastures are ready to graze. Kevin Herbel Kansas Farm...

Governor Pete Ricketts and Charlie Bosselman of Bosselman Enterprises, from the ribbon cutting of their new flex fuel pumps at the Bosselman Travel Center in Grand Island. Don Bloss, a farmer from Pawnee City, Nebraska and chairman of the National Sorghum Producers, shares his reaction to the news that China has dropped its anti-dumping and countervailing duty investigations into U.S. sorghum. USD...

Jane Raybould won the Democratice nomination for Senate. She talked with KRVN about her plans for the general election.

Stonie Cooper, Nebraska Mesonet Manager, is in again this week for Al Dutcher. Kansas is hosting meetings on industrial hemp and to find out more about the industry Clay Patton talks with Duane Sinning plant division director at the Colorado Department of Agriculture. Fridays in the Field series starts in Central Nebraska with Chapman farmer Andrew McHargue. He grows everything from popcorn to non...