Other active NU faculty include Mason, Schepers, Gary Hergert, extension soils specialist and associate director at the NU West Central Research and Extension Center near North Platte, and Richard Ferguson, soils specialist at the extension center near Clay Center, who heads up the Precision Agriculture Working Group. Value of production increased in petroleum, natural gas, uranium, sand and gravel and clays. The overall rise was led by a 9.5 million increase in the value of petroleum production, a 16 percent rise due to an increase in the price of petroleum, according to preliminary figures offered by a University of Nebraska-Lincoln research geologist. Inc. They are available from the Conservation and Survey Division, a unit of the UNL Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources, in a flyer on mineral production data in Nebraska. Conservation and Survey , Water Center reprint volume on drought humor by Roger Welsch Roger Welsch says, On the plains it's foolish to consider rainfall in terms of averages.
Averages are the least likely occurrences.
Welsch writes columns for state and national magazines and hosts a segment of a Sunday morning news show with a national network. The work was first published in 1978 but is available again from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The Water Center first published the collection and, along with the Conservation and Survey Division, the Water Conference Council, the UNL Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources and UNL, is a sponsor of the annual Nebraska Water Conference, for which the reprint was prepared. The Water Center will also use the reprints in its promotional activities, Stork said. One dollar from each book sold will benefit the Nebraska Water Conference Council, which is responsible for organizing the annual conference.