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BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING 2:00 p.m. | Thursday, March 30, 2023 Central Platte NRD Office: 215 Kaufman Avenue, Grand Island NE Central Platte NRD Board to Consider Appointing New Director to Sub-District 5 The Central Platte Natural Resources District’s (CPNRD) Board of Directors will consider the Search Committee’s recommended candidate to fill the vacancy in […]

Sensor Based Fertigation Management Cost Share Program Central Platte NRD has a new cost share program for Sensor Based Management of Fertigation for the 2023 growing season. The program will provide $11/acre with a two-year commitment and a maximum of two fields or 320 acres. The goal of the cost-share is to provide financial assistance […]

Central Platte NRD is offering free tree seedlings from late April through May to classrooms/youth groups to help celebrate Arbor Day and Earth Day. The Ponderosa Pine and Colorado Blue Spruce seedlings are 6”-12” tall and are ordered from Halsey National Forest. Plastic bags with planting instructions are provided. CPNRD staff will deliver the seedlings […]

Register for Soil Carbon Info Events on March 14 Are you curious about funding for best management practices through the Nebraska Soil Carbon Project? Cooperating producers in the Central Platte or Upper Big Blue NRD can earn up to $45 per acre for practices such as cover crops, no-till, and diverse cropping rotations. Since the program’s launch […]

Board of Directors Meeting February 23, 2023 | 215 Kaufman Ave  Grand Island NE 68803 BUSINESS Central Platte NRD to Move Forward with Bids for Proposed Education/Office Building The Central Platte Natural Resources District’s (CPNRD) Board of Directors approved a contract with JEO in the amount of $470,425 to complete construction documents and bidding/negotiation on […]

Central Platte NRD’s annual Water Programs Update is canceled due to inclement weather.  The Update was scheduled for Thursday, February 16 at the Merrick County Youth & Ag Education Center in Central City. Presentation and podcast links will be provided to those who RSVP’d. If you are interested in receiving information on the following topics […]

Bendfeldt Steps Down from Central Platte NRD Board   –   January 26, 2023 (GRAND ISLAND, NE) –  Jim Bendfeldt, Director on the Central Platte Natural Resources District (CPNRD) Board,  stepped down for personal reasons at their monthly meeting on Thursday. Bendfeldt was a very active member for the 17 years he served on the Board. In […]

The Nebraska Chemigation Act rules are administered by Nebraska’s Natural Resources Districts (NRDs) and the Nebraska Department of Environment & Energy (402) 473-2186. The law requires a person directly involved in calibrating and monitoring a chemigation system to be certified to help ensure that ground and surface waters are not contaminated by backflow of chemicals […]

Five NRDs Awarded Grant Funding for Pasture Improvement Projects Five Natural Resources Districts (NRDs) were recently awarded grant funding for the “Partnering to Preserve Central Nebraska’s Core Grasslands” project sponsored by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation  https://www.nfwf.org/. The partnering NRDs include Central Platte, Twin Platte, Tri-Basin, Middle Republican and Lower Loup. The total grant […]