Slight freeze damage to leaves on winter wheat in Southeast Nebraska. Taken by Jenny Rees, Extension Educator.
Hello All,
What’s Up This Wheat? Weekly highlights and resources for growing winter wheat in Eastern Nebraska.
Weather
- Nebraska Drought Monitor for April 12 – No improvement across southeast Nebraska from last week. Subsoil moisture in Nuckolls, Thayer, and Jefferson counties is lacking in the 2 ft and 3 ft based on extension educator reports from Randy Pryor and Jenny Rees
- Check out the Quantitative Precipitation Forecasts for the next week 7 days
- Observations from last week/weekend cold events:
- Behind normal growth stage mitigated yield impact – wheat in the tillering stage
- Understanding Freeze Injury to Nebraska Wheat by growth stage
- Only slight leaf damage in Dodge and Washington counties – Nathan Mueller
- Some leaf damage in Nuckolls and Webster counties – Jenny Rees
- See attached picture
Highlight(s) in the Media
- Nebraska Farmer Magazine: A closer look at managing wheat under irrigation – Second half of article focuses on Eastern Nebraska with information from Jenny Rees, Extension Educator
- Picture of winter wheat front-and-center on this week’s CropWatch Issue
Economics
- USDA-Economic Research Service – Wheat Outlook, April 12 2018
Agronomics
- CropWatch Article: Planning Ahead for Winter Wheat: Review Corn and Soybean Herbicide Programs
- NEW! Visual Guide of Winter Wheat Development and Growth Staging from University of Wisconsin-Madison Extension
- Growth stages across Eastern Nebraska: Most from Feekes 2 to Feekes 3
- Nebraska Wheat Crop Report, April 12 – by Nebraska Wheat including a summary for southeast Nebraska
- Where is winter wheat planted in Nebraska and how often… down to the field level. Check out CropScape – Satellite-based cropland data layer from USDA-NASS
Tips
- What is happening with the winter wheat crop in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska? Join the webinar and hosting institution, Oklahoma State University Extension, on Mondays at 8:30 am CT during April: http://wheat.okstate.edu/relatedlinks/wheat-update-webinar
- Save the Date! May 30 (Southeast NE) & June 12 (East Central NE) Winter Wheat Field Days and Variety Trial Tours
- #wheat, follow on Twitter – Nebraska Wheat @NebraskaWheat
Thank you to Nebraska Extension Educators, Jenny Rees and Randy Pryor, for providing local reports.
Please feel free to email me and the group with questions!
You can view previous weekly emails at https://croptechcafe.org.
This email is part of the Winter Wheat Works Initiative, a local Nebraska 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.
