1.5 miles NE of Scribner: Irrigated no-till soybeans on Moody Silty Clay loam soil (about 2.2″ of available water per foot) July 20 – July 27 Weekly Rainfall/Irrigation & Crop Water Use for July 20 – July 27: Rainfall = 0.40″ Irrigation = 0″ (0.0″ total for season) ET (Evapotranspiration) Reading: 1.3 Soybean Water Use […] Continue reading → 
This is Dr. Nathan Mueller, your local agronomist for Nebraska Extension. There are an array of foliar feeding insects in soybean fields right now. It is sometimes hard to determine the percent of defoliation and to identify which insects are causing the defoliation in your soybean crop. First, as soybeans begin to set pods, an […] Continue reading → 1.5 miles NE of Scribner: Irrigated no-till soybeans on Moody Silty Clay loam soil (about 2.2″ of available water per foot) July 13 – July 20 Weekly Rainfall/Irrigation & Crop Water Use for July 6 – July 13: Rainfall = 2.0″ Irrigation = 0″ (0.0″ total for season) ET (Evapotranspiration) Reading: 1.4 Corn Water Use […] Continue reading → 
In this report, I will use the definitions used by USDA-NASS for crop conditions: General crop conditions. Categories are defined as follows: Very Poor – Extreme loss of yield potential; complete or near complete crop failure. Poor – Heavy loss of yield potential due to excessive soil moisture, drought, disease, etc. Fair – Less than […] Continue reading → A new program called “Local Crop Water” sponsored by Nebraska Extension in Dodge & Washington counties will share weekly crop water use and soil moisture measurements from three irrigated and one rainfed field in 2015. The cost of the materials (ET gauges, Watermark soil sensors, sensor reading, mileage, etc.) for the program comes from local […] Continue reading → 
Northern corn leaf blight first became visible three weeks ago in Dodge and Washington counties. The disease severity has been increasing in some high risk environments (disease present last year, corn-after-corn, and a moderate to susceptible hybrid). In low risk environments, such as corn planted after alfalfa, lesions have not been observed. However, some NCLB […] Continue reading → 