A new Direct Marketing of Specialty Food Products Curriculum has been designed by a team from University Nebraska Lincoln Extension to provide business owners with strategies and tools to help sell directly to consumers. This online curriculum can be utilized by business owners 24/7 by logging in at http://go.unl.edu/directmarketingfood.

The self-directed program allows business owners to:

• Evaluate the role of technology in the business
• Examine how to weigh the costs and benefits of technology
• Understand online marketing tools
• Learn how to build an online presence
• Understand how online...

NCR-SARE grant recipient and Administrative Council member, Edgar Hicks, and NCR-SARE Administrative Council member, Nancy Williams, recently contributed to a feature about George Washington Carver in Revive Omaha Magazine's Empowerment Edition.

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The Brilliance of a Scientist Through the Carver Grange of Omaha (CarGO)

Source: Revive Omaha Magazine, by By No More Empty Pots, Susan Whitfield & Nancy Williams

George Washington Carver was a ‘living green’ hero. Living green was a way of life for him and he spent his life sharing his admiration for plants with others...

NCR-SARE grant recipient and Administrative Council member, Edgar Hicks, appeared in a special episode of Nebraska Stories, commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the Homestead Act. 

On May 15,1862, the Homestead Act was passed and signed into law. The act established a three-fold homestead acquisition process: filing an application, improving the land, and filing for deed of title. Any U.S. citizen, or intended citizen, who had never borne arms against the U.S. Government could file an application and lay claim to 160 acres of surveyed Government land. For the next 5 years, the homesteader...

In this University of Nebraska story, NCR-SARE grant recipient Tapan Pathak talks about the outreach taking place in Nebraska regarding climate change. 

Pathak was awarded a $74,286 Professional Development Program grant for the project, "Ensuring Sustainable Agriculture in the Face of a Changing Climate." Pathak wants to provide regionally tailored climate change and sustainable agriculture professional development for Extension and Natural Resources Conservation Services educators.  

Pathak’s  project has been named as the 2011 Paula Ford Professional Development Program...

Market Journal's Kurtis Harms reports on the SARE Program. Nebraska SARE State Coordinator, Gary Lesoing, was at the Triumph in Agriculture Show in Omaha, NE and was interviewed by Market Journal. This segment on SARE is on YouTube and appeared on Market Journal on Nebraska Educational Television.

As part of the Nebraska SARE Sustainable Agriculture Series of webinars,Tonya Haigh, Rural Sociologist with the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln will present the webinar, "Managing Drought Risk on the Ranch", a new web-based resource and drought planning methodology for rangeland managers and advisers on Friday, November 18th from 10:00 - 11:00 a.m.  Click here to access the webinar.
Contact Gary Lesoing at glesoing2@unl.edu  or (402) 274-4755.

NCR-SARE State Coordinator for Nebraska, Gary Lesoing, will be hosting a webinar to help producers understand the NCR-SARE Farmer Rancher Grant Program, the grant writing process, what makes a good proposal, and answer questions you may have. If you are interested in learning about the NCR-SARE Farmer Rancher Grant Program, join Gary Lesoing on September 22nd from 10-11am (CST) for a webniar about the grant program.

To connect, click on the URL: https://connect.extension.iastate.edu/unl

For more information, contact

A webinar, "Adapting Cover Crop Management for Nebraska" will be presented on Friday, August 5th from 10-11am, CDT. 

This is a continuation ofthe Nebraska SARE Webinar Series which began last year. Sam Wortman, UNL PhD candidate in Agronomy, will present information on:

I. General benefits of cover crops
II. Cover crop selection and management
III. Cover crop research in Nebraska (since1980)
IV. Reduced- and no-till organic systemswith cover crops
V. Cover crop mixtures
VI. Results of my cover crop research project

You can connect to this webinar at 10:00 a.m. on August 5th at:...

Nebraska SARE is sponsoring High Tunnel Training for Ag Educators at two locations in Nebraska, June 21st in Lincoln and June 22nd in North Platte.

This is an opportunity to learn about High Tunnel Construction, Production, and Management, and visit a High Tunnel. This program is for all ag educators, including Extension Educators, NRCS Staff, Vocational Agriculture teachers and others that work with ag producers and potential ag producers. 

While registration is free, participants must pre-register by June 14th and June 15th for the Lincoln and North Platte locations respectively. Register...