Hello All, What’s Up This Wheat? Weekly highlights and resources for growing winter wheat in Eastern Nebraska. Weather Nebraska Drought Monitor for May 3 – Created prior to the rain this week, but expansion of the abnormally dry area throughout southeast Nebraska and up into east central Nebraska. Significant rainfall May 1-3 across portions of […] Continue reading → 
1st Annual Winter Wheat Works Initiative Workshop – Feb. 1, 2018 Why attend: Positioning your farm to manage manure, control tough weeds, and improve soil health are just some of the advantages to growing winter wheat in Eastern Nebraska. The winter wheat varieties planted in eastern Nebraska today can yield upward of 140 bu/ac […] Continue reading → 
Presentation by Nathan Mueller at the 2018 Nebraska Crop Management Conference in Kearney on Jan. 25, 2018 Continue reading → 
Listen to this week’s Extension Agronomy Corner on KTIC Radio: This is Dr. Nathan Mueller, your local agronomist with Nebraska Extension for Dodge and Washington counties. Winter wheat grown in Northeast and East Central Nebraska only makes up 1% of all Nebraska wheat acres, which was roughly 15,000 acres in 2016. However, what is surprising […] Continue reading → 
Listen to this week’s KTIC Radio Extension Corner on Gray Leaf Spot and Southern Rust: “This is Dr. Nathan Mueller, your local agronomist with Nebraska Extension for Dodge and Washington counties. Over the past week two leaf fungal disease have become much more noticeable and may warrant fungicide application. This includes gray leaf spot […] Continue reading → 
Does High Humidity and Temperature Disrupt Corn Pollination? With the high humidity and high temperatures this week, how could this impact corn pollination? Here is a short summary and highlights from a UNL CropWatch article “How Extended High Heat Disrupts Corn Pollination” written by Tom Hoegemeyer in 2011. High humidity helps reduce crop water demand […] Continue reading → 
Listen to this week’s Tune In for Top Tips on KTIC Radio: This is Dr. Nathan Mueller, your local agronomist with Nebraska Extension for Dodge and Washington counties. Last time our Tune In for Top Tips was to turn down your soybean seeding rate, not your radio. This week’s Tune In for Top Tips is […] Continue reading →