Listen to this week’s KTIC Radio Extension Corner This is Dr. Nathan Mueller, your local agronomist with Nebraska Extension for Dodge and Washington counties. As you get crops out of the field this fall, you have already started thinking about changes you might make for the 2017 growing season. Harvest is also the ideal […] Continue reading → 
Listens to this weeks extension corner: This is Dr. Nathan Mueller, your local agronomist with Nebraska Extension for Dodge and Washington counties. While many of you are thinking about harvest, there are a few farmers in the area thinking about planting. Since I moved back home to serve as the local Nebraska Cropping Systems […] Continue reading → 
2016 Dodge County Crop Tech Cafe Yield Tour: September 7-10 by Nathan Mueller Listen to this interview with Chad Moyer and I from Husker Harvest Days about the results of the 2016 Dodge County Yield Tour: First, how close was my preharvest yield estimates last year during this tour? USDA-NASS 2015 Dodge County yields based […] Continue reading → 
Listen this weeks extension corner: This is Dr. Nathan Mueller, your local agronomist with Nebraska Extension for Dodge and Washington counties. On July 18, I conducted my third annual mid-July crop tour of Dodge County. The goal of the tour is to highlight crop conditions, pests, diseases, and other important agronomic issues in the area. […] Continue reading → 
View previous mid-July crop tours from July 14 and July 21, 2014 and July 16, 2015 In this report, I will use the definitions used by USDA-NASS for crop conditions: USDA Crop Condition Ratings: Very Poor: Extreme degree of loss to yield potential, complete or near crop failure. Poor: Heavy loss of yield potential due […] Continue reading → Where Winter Wheat Works This is Dr. Nathan Mueller, your local agronomist with Nebraska Extension for Dodge and Washington counties. Are you looking to improve soil quality and health, plant cover crops, reduce soil erosion, find a place to haul manure, fight winter annual weeds, diversify of your crop rotation, and spread out workload […] Continue reading → 
Six agronomic issues to check out this week in your fields or just learn about: Scout early planted corn fields for damping off and final stand. Learn how long it can take for corn to emerge after planting. Don’t let them cut your yield, scout certain fields for cutworms/armyworms. Why do corn plants turn purple sometimes? […] Continue reading →