Coming Events
June 18, Iris Folding, 1:30 p.m. 4-H Building, York
June 19, Pizza Pizzazz, 9:30 a.m. 4-H Building, York
June 21-26, National 4-H Shooting Sports Championships, Heartland Shooting Park, Grand Island
June 22. Unique Batiki, 9:00 a.m. Home Ec. Building, York
June 22, Unique Batiki, 1:30 a.m. Home Ec. Building, York
June 22, Extension Board Exec. Meeting, 8:00 p.m. Extension Office, York
June 30, Tie-Dye T-shirts, 9:30 a.m., Home Ec. Building, York
July 7 & 8, Rocket Building 101, 1:00 p.m., 4-H Building York
July 13, Clover Kids Animal Camp, 9:00 a.m., 4-H Building, York
July 14, Clover Kitchen, 9:30 a.m., 4-H Building, York
2015 4-H Shooting Sports National Championships
Again this this year, Nebraska will be hosting the National 4-H Shooting Sports Championships, June 21-26 at the Heartland Public Shooting Park, 6788 W. Husker Highway, and Heartland Events Center, 700 E. Stolley Park Road, in Grand Island.
This year’s event will involve more than 550 4-H youth, ages 14-18, from across the nation competing in one of nine disciplines. Fifty-four national 4-H champions, both individuals and teams, will be named during the competition.
The 27 events in the nine discipline areas include compound archery, recurve archery, air rifle, air pistol, .22 rifle, .22 pistol, shotgun, muzzleloading and hunting skills.
States can send up to nine teams to compete, with a maximum of 36 youth representing their state 4-H shooting sports program. The free event is open to the public. For more information, visit http://4h.unl.edu/4hssnationalchamp.
This year the York County 4-H program will be represented by Leon Linhart. He will be representing Nebraska and York County in the small bore rifle (.22 rifle). He began in the 4-H shooting sports program at age 9 with the BB gun. He is now involved in many of the shooting sport events including BB gun, Air rifle, small bore rifle and shotgun.
His local coaches are Dan Barrett and his Dad Russ Linhart from here in York while his national coach is Ray Kenney from Beemer, Nebraska.Â
Leon is 15 years old and will be a sophomore at York High School. Good Luck Leon!  Â
UNL Beef Feedlot School
I received a note from Larry Howard, Extension Educator in Cuming County, that the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will be offering a Beef Feedlot School at the West Point Livestock Auction Market. Our goal is to assist with the training of feedlot employees in the areas of animal health and feeding management.Â
The program will be at the June 23rd at the West Point Livestock Auction, 839 S Colfax Str (Hwy 275), West Point, NE. Registration is from 1:00 -1:30 p.m., Adjourn at 5:00 p.m.
Topics:
• Sampling, Packaging, and Recording Materials for Diagnostic Centers and Consulting Veterinarians
• Rumen Anatomy and Physiology
• Chute-Side Live Animal Evaluation: A process to assist with diagnosis and treatment
• Feedlot Nutrition and Management– From  Bacteria to the Bunk
Please pre-register by phone, fax, e-mail, or mail, by Thursday, June 18th ($10/person or $20 at the door).
To Register Contact:
Matt Luebbe, Panhandle Research & Extension Center 4502 Avenue I, Scottsbluff, NE 69361; Phone: 308-632-1260; Fax: 308-632-1365; E-mail: mluebbe2@unl.edu
Cropping Update
Well, it’s been another week of plenty of rainfall again! We’ve had about 3.0†in three rainfall events and they’re predicting more a couple of times the coming week. No need to share our estimated crop water use or ET since we’ve had plenty of rain.Â
Our official June rainfall to date amount is 7.91†compared to our average of 4.01â€. We sure don’t need another record for June. It would have been great to spread this rainfall out season long. Â
I hope you’ll again check out this week’s issue of CropWatch: http://cropwatch.unl.edu. Check out the article on “Working Toward Improved Nitrogen Use Efficiency in Cornâ€.Â
Some of the findings that Dr. Richard Ferguson found include:
• Growers over-estimated expected yield compared to actual yield in 18 of 20 years studied.Â
• Generally growers applied a similar amount, regardless of soil test results, indicating a lack of trust in recommendations that differed most from their usual practice. .
Some nitrogen recommendations he had include:Â
• Avoid fall applications and consider in-season split applications to coordinate timing of nitrogen placement with plant needs.
• Use University recommendations for applying nitrogen to corn, wheat, and sorghum. These have been well tested and proven successful in University and on-farm producer trials.
• Use current research-based, soil-test based algorithms to approach the optimum N rate and timing.
• If you’re applying nitrogen preplant, use an inhibitor to place activation closer to the time when the plant will need it.
I’ve received a couple of questions from producers asking about how much nitrogen may have been leached as a result of the excessive rains we’ve been receiving.Â
In a six year center pivot irrigated study several years ago, the nitrogen loss with 9.3 inches of drainage resulted in an average nitrogen loss of 5.7 lb. of nitrogen per inch of drainage.
The amount of nitrogen loss one would expect will depend upon your soil type (you’ll lose more on sandy soils that silt loam soils), when you applied the nitrogen, the type of applied along with the amount applied.
I believe that the literature would place the losses in the 5-20 lbs. N per inch of water drainage. The reason being that if you have 200 lbs of N that is available for leaching you would get one number and if you have 50 lbs available for leaching you get a much lower number.
I’m sure we’re probably going to see more nitrogen loss that typical and we’ll need to do a little side dressing or chemigating? Hopefully we’ve only moved the down slightly but not out of the root zone?   Â
Flooding/Disaster Resources
I shared this link last week, but since we’ve again received considerable rainfall, I thought I’d share it again. If you are looking for flooding resources go to: http://flood.unl.edu/.Â
The Extension Disaster resources website is: http://www.extension.unl.edu/disaster-recovery. It also has links to much useful information.
Yard and Garden
How is your garden doing? We’ve not needed to worry about watering it yet? I’ve harvested my early planted cauliflower and broccoli and all of the radishes. Just started picking a few peas and have checked out the potatoes and have some 50 cent sized little tubers, so hopefully if it dries out a little I’ll try and harvest some of them along with those peas. Creamed potatoes and peas are one of those spring time traditions.
I’ve seen some of those white butterflies or moths flying around, so it’s time to use dipel or some other labeled insecticide to control those pesky green cabbage worms. I’m sure they’ll begin to show up soon.
With all the wet weather it will be important to also apply labeled fungicides to your tomatoes and peppers to prevent leaf spot diseases which typically will show up. I like to also try and keep as much of the soil as possible from splashing onto the leaves by mulching with plastic, grass clipping, paper etc. Early protection will pay dividends down the road by keeping your plants healthy.
It’s also a good idea to stake or cage your tomatoes for easier harvest and to keep the fruit off the soil surface. I use cattle panels for mine, but many systems and variation exist. For more information and tips, check out our NebGuides on growing tomatoes and peppers at: http://www.ianrpubs.unl.edu/epublic/live/g1650/build/g1650.pdf
http://www.ianrpubs.unl.edu/epublic/live/g1879/build/g1879.pdf
Give me a call or email me if you’ve got questions or topic you’d like addressed. Our email address is gary.zoubek@unl.edu or phone 402-362-5508.
2015 York County Fairbooks
The 2015 York County Fairbooks have just arrived. Stop by our office and pick up a copy. They’re also on line at: http://york.unl.edu/. The York County Fair webpage is located at: http://www.yorkcountyfair.com/.
