Weekly highlights and resources for producing winter wheat in eastern Nebraska.
Pictures submitted in June by eastern Nebraska wheat growers and agronomist in Jefferson (UNL variety trial) and Saline counties. Email me to have your wheat picture featured next week!
Weather
- Drought Monitor in eastern Nebraska: Abnormally dry areas in east central and southern Nebraska remain, but some changes expected next week.
- NWS: Nebraska precipitation maps at a quick glance, rainfall last night and this morning quite variable in distribution. Storm reports include both hail and tornadoes, view reports from June 9.
- Climate Prediction Center: Brief cool down and then heat likely to return June 15 to 23, so not ideal during grain fill.
Highlights in the News
- Nebraska Wheat Board Crop Report: June 10 – Southeast – Wheat in the southeast corner…
- USDA-ERS, June 9: U.S. Farmers Planting Less Wheat, But Sowing of Winter Varieties Stay Stable
- Progressive Farmer by DTN, June 8: Out With the Old, in With the New: A New Crop Year Begins for Winter Wheat
Economics
- Local Cash Bids on June 10, 2020 (July futures, $4.58)ADM Lincoln at $4.59, see Discount Schedule
- Scoular Fremont at $4.69
- USDA North Central and Northeast Kansas Wheat Straw Prices, June 9: Small squares at $5-6 per bale delivered, large squares at $70-80/ton, and large rounds at $55-65/ton
- Farm Progress Morning Market Review for June 10, 2020
Agronomics
- Review of Wheat Growth Stages:From north to south in eastern Nebraska plus variation in planting dates and variety, growth stage likely range from Feekes 10.5.1 (flowering) to Feekes 11.1 (milk stage).
- UNL CropWatch and Crop Tech CafeNew Stripe Rust Distribution Map: June 4
- Wheat Disease Update: June 2
- Saline County Crop Tour: June 1
- K-State Agronomy eUpdate, June 5 and 9:Effects of recent high temperatures on wheat
- Late-season diseases: Be on the lookout for Fusarium head blight
Tips
- Complete the new Nebraska Winter Wheat Stripe and Leaf Rust Tracking Survey! You will answer several questions and upload a high quality photo as a part of this survey to track the distribution/movement of stripe and leaf rust in Nebraska by county.
- A video tour was recorded on June 8 at the UNL variety trial in Lancaster County in eastern Nebraska. Video is being edited and will be available online to watch sometime this month. South Central Nebraska variety trial presentation will be record on Zoom by Todd Whitney and I soon, will post online later this month too.
- Send me pictures of your wheat to be highlighted in the next newsletter and keep sending me pictures this growing season! Email to
Please feel free to email me () with your questions or share with me great information too!
You can view previous newsletters at croptechcafe.org/winterwheat/
This newsletter is part of the Winter Wheat Works Initiative, a local University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension effort by Nathan Mueller, Cropping Systems Educator, 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.
