Last week I wrote about freeze damage to alfalfa and there is now an expanded version on our statewide agronomy website at https://cropwatch.unl.edu/2020/freeze-damage-alfalfa. I have received numerous questions and concerns about winter wheat too. Our western Nebraska Cropping Systems Extension Specialist, Cody Creech, has already written an article about freeze injury to wheat with references […] Continue reading → 
What’s up this Wheat? Weekly highlights and resources for producing winter wheat in eastern Nebraska. Weather High Plains Regional Climate Center:Station Tool and view Crete 4ESE station with two record cold days set on April 10 and 14. Station data from 1893-Current. USDA Midwest Climate Hub: Extreme Cold-Freezing Impacts USDA Weekly Weather and Crop Bulletin: […] Continue reading → 
How important is considering soybean relative maturity in eastern Nebraska? It can be significant depending on your goals. Spreading out harvest to manage seed moisture at harvest, early harvest for marketing, early harvest to seed a cover/forage crop or winter wheat cash crop, or later relative maturities for timing rainfalls in mid to late August […] Continue reading → 
I talked with 160 private pesticide applicators at the trainings in Wilber and Saline Center this past week about integrated pest management in regards to frogeye leaf spot, a fungal disease in soybeans. In 2019, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension confirmed this pathogen showed resistance to a common fungicide group 11 or QoI, formerly called […] Continue reading → 
Hello All, What’s up this Wheat? Weekly highlights and resources for producing winter wheat in Eastern Nebraska. Weather Al’s Forecast on Market Journal – Nebraska Extension Ag Climatologist Fall Freeze Statistics for Nebraska Regions from the Nebraska Climate Office High Plains Regional Climate Center – August Climate Summary Highlight(s) in the Media Farm Progress: Morning […] Continue reading → 
This is Dr. Nathan Mueller, your local agronomist with Nebraska Extension for Dodge and Washington counties. Wheat is the fourth most grown crop falling behind corn, soybean, and alfalfa in eastern Nebraska. Roughly 50,000 acres of winter wheat is grown in the three eastern Nebraska crop reporting districts. I worked with 10 farmers in 2019 […] Continue reading → 
This is Dr. Nathan Mueller, your local agronomist with Nebraska Extension for Dodge and Washington counties. We don’t consider eastern Nebraska winter wheat country, however roughly 50,000 acres of winter wheat are grown in the three eastern Nebraska crop reporting districts, which is east of Highway 14 from Knox down to Nuckolls County. Wheat is […] Continue reading →