What’s Up This Wheat? April 25

Hello All,

What’s up this Wheat? Weekly highlights and resources for producing winter wheat in Eastern Nebraska.

Weather

• United States Drought Monitor – April 25 released map – No drought… yet
• Soil Moisture Models of the U.S. – April 24 calculate soil moisture ranking percentile
• Climate Prediction Center – 6-10 Day, 8-14 Day, Week 3-4 Outlooks – Cool and wet for April 30 – May 4

Highlight(s) in the Media

• Nebraska Farmer: Morning Market Review for April 25, 2019
• Successful Farming: Good Weather Puts Russia, Ukraine on Track for Large Grain Crop
• Farm Futures: Wheat Outlook – Whet tries to defy the odds

Economics

• USDA-ERS Wheat Outlook, April 11 – U.S. All Wheat Area Intended Plantings for 2019/20 Lowest on Record
• Quality Matter! 2019 Kansas Market Wheat Show: Mill-Bake score sheet by variety

Agronomics

• University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension CropWatch Articles
  • It is time to start scouting for wheat diseases
  • 2019 Guide for Weed, Disease, and Insect Management in Nebraska – Get a copy
• K-State Agronomy eUpdates
  • First reports in Kansas of wheat rust activity for 2019
  • Wheat fungicide publication: Update for 2019
• Crop Tech Cafe – Winter Wheat Cafe for Eastern Nebraska
  • Visual Guide – Winter Wheat Development and Growth Staging – Online or request a hard copy from me.
  • New Fungicide, Miravis Ace, approved for 2019 for controlling Fusarium Head Blight
  • Planting progress and conditions maps from Advanced Trading – view pdf (Crop Progress Map 04.21.2019)

Tips

• Save the Date – Wheat and Pulse Crop Field Day on June 18, 2019 at the Eastern Nebraska Research and Extension Center near Mead
• Tell a friend to sign up for this weekly email, What’s up this Wheat? Details on how to sign up at Join the Eastern Nebraska Winter Wheat Grower Email Group

Please feel free to email me and other wheat farmers in eastern Nebraska that are a part of this email group with comments or questions!

You can view previous weekly emails at https://croptechcafe.org.

This email is part of the Winter Wheat Works Initiative, a local University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension effort to encourage and support growers in Eastern Nebraska to move from a strict corn-soybean rotation to a successful flex-rotation where some winter wheat acres are considered each year and strategically integrated into their cropping system.