There certainly were plenty of reasons to celebrate this year’s Arbor Day. In addition to it being the 150th anniversary of our hometown holiday’s first celebration, it also marked the 50th anniversary of the Nemaha Natural Resources District and the Arbor Day Foundation.
An individual’s appearance can speak volumes. For many, that underscores the importance of having a wardrobe that presents the image they want to project. Unless you have unlimited funds, the process of curating a wardrobe can take
For rural communities to survive and thrive, they need access to many of the same resources larger cities do—groceries, energy, broadband, and health care among them. To address the health care needs of rural seniors, Medicare has numerous special provisions, including a hospital category for Critical Access Hospitals (CAH)— facilities with 25 or fewer beds in communities distant from the next-closest hospital.
Over the course of my career, I have performed countless pelvic exams on women of all ages from all walks of life. There are two common patient behaviors that I have observed. First, most women leave their socks on. This could be the fact that most stirrups are cold, but it also seems like one feels just a little less exposed when wearing at least one item of their own clothing. The other thing that almost every woman does in the exam room is hide her undergarments under her pile of clothes. It is interesting that almost everyone, me included, feels the need to cover and hide their “unmentionables” when they are about to bare the very areas normally covered by these garments.
Transplants are the way to go with tomatoes, peppers and dozens of other vegetables, as well as many of the annual flowers common in Nebraska gardens. Transplants give long-season crops a head start before being put out in the garden and a chance to produce before fall frost. Annual flowers grown from transplants begin blooming weeks earlier than they would if a gardener planted them from seed.
While soybean prices and yields have generally been excellent last year, we still have many challenges to be aware of in the region. Probably one of the biggest concerns is the resistance of Frogeye Leaf Spot to QoI (strobilurin, FRAC group 11) fungicides. In 2020 Extension Educators across Nebraska sampled fields for frogeye leaf spot to determine how widespread resistance is to QoI or group 11 fungicides.
April is known for April showers – ordinarily. This year, we didn’t see any of those until April was almost out the door.
The act of breathing is essential to life and can be done with or without thinking about it. You can control your breath and vary it, but eventually air must come in, and air must go out.
One of Nebraska’s many mottos through the years was “The Tree Planter State,” and the state’s Natural Resources Districts appear to be living up to that nickname. This spring, the NRDs’ Conservation Tree Program planted its 100 millionth tree.
The 2022 Legislative Session will go down in history as one of the Nebraska Unicameral’s finest. In just 60 days, the Legislature passed record tax relief, made critical public safety enhancements, and invested in generational water resource projects. As if this wasn’t enough, Senators also allocated $1.04 billion of federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding.