What’s Up This Wheat? June 3-9

Hello All,

What’s Up This Wheat? Weekly highlights and resources for growing winter wheat in Eastern Nebraska.

Weather

• Nebraska Drought Monitor for June 7 – No change over the past week under abnormally dry area or D1 drought classification. 3% increase in the area under D1 drought classification for southeast Nebraska compared to the first week of May. Compare two weeks yourself at http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Maps/CompareTwoWeeks.aspx
• Significant rainfall over the past week across portions of the northeast and southeast tier of counties along the Missouri River: View at NOAA Quantitative Precipitation Estimates
• Most significant rainfall for the second week of June expected to fall to our east in Iowa: Quantitative Precipitation Forecasts
• Soil moisture sensors in Dodge County wheat field show good soil profile moisture, with 1.68 inches available before 50% depleted in the top 3 feet on June 6
• Soil moisture update from Jenny Rees on May 31 for Clay, Nuckolls, and Thayer counties

Highlight(s) in the Media

• Farm Futures: Wheat Outlook – Make plans for a rally in wheat

Economics: Supply

• USDA-ERS Wheat Outlook, May 14 – Look at winter wheat production changes from 2018 vs. 2017

Agronomics

• CropWatch Article: Wheat Disease Update May 31, Levels Still Low
• CropWatch Article: Wheat Diseases Minimal, June 8 Update
• Market Journal TV Interview: Wheat Trends with Randy Pryor
• Market Journal TV Interview: Wheat Varieties with Stephen Baenziger
• Market Journal TV Interview: Wheat Stand Consistency with Paul Jasa
• K-State Extension Agronomy eUpdate: Effects of recent high temperatures on wheat. Numbers to remember are 82 and 93 degrees!
• Nebraska Wheat Crop Report June 6, 2018 including southeast Nebraska
• 2018 Nebraska statewide winter wheat condition similar to 2016 and better than 2014, 2015, 2017.
• Educator reports
  • Jenny Rees, June 8: Wheat is turning color, soft dough or some fields are being baled.
  • Nathan Mueller, June 8: Visited 10 fields in Washington, Dodge, Colfax, and Stanton counties ranging from Feekes 10.5.1 (late flowering) to Feekes 11.1 (milk stage) this week. Low disease levels from leaf rust, barley yellow dwarf, fungal leaf spot in lower canopy, and trace levels of Fusarium head blight. Also, fair amount of white heads from wheat stem maggot. Soil moisture levels are currently adequate.
• Eastern Nebraska growth stage reports: Feekes 10.5.1 to Feekes 11.2
  • Visual Guide of Winter Wheat Development and Growth Staging

Tips

• Attend Winter Wheat and Pulse Crop Field Day near Mead at Eastern Nebraska Research & Extension Center on June 12
  • CropWatch Article
  • Program Flyer
  • Great free lunch from Parker’s Smokehouse
  • Register to attend
• #wheat, follow this show on Twitter – @marketjournal – Produced by UNL

Please feel free to email me and the group with comments or 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.