What’s Up This Wheat? May 20

Hello All,

What’s up this Wheat? Weekly highlights and resources for producing winter wheat in Eastern Nebraska.

Weather

• Weather Outlooks for Planting Season and Summer – Al Dutcher
• U.S. soil moisture anomaly in millimeters
• Cool and wet weather predicted to continue – NOAA Climate Prediction Center
• Fusarium Head Blight Prediction Center – Likely high risk for eastern Nebraska this season

Highlight(s) in the Media

• Nebraska Farmer: Morning Market Review for May 20, 2019
• ABC News: Australia to import wheat for first time in over a decade
• Bloomberg: The Consolidation of the American Harvest (2018)
• Nebraska Wheat Board: NE Wheat Crop Report – May 15

Economics

• Scoular in Fremont: Prices back up to $4.78 this morning
• Rock Valley Mixed Hay and Bedding Auction in NW, Iowa: Straw prices for large rounds at $120/ton
• Wheat Reports from CME Group – Periodic Report, Supply Charts, Demand Charts, Fundamental Reference

Agronomics

• University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension CropWatch Articles
  • Levels of Wheat Diseases Low, But Likely to Increase
• K-State Agronomy eUpdates
  • Herbicide carryover considerations when recropping damaged wheat
  • K-State wheat plot tours for May 20-24, 2019
  • Twitter: @KSUWheatDisease
    • Distribution of Leaf Rust
    • Distribution of Stripe Rust
• South Dakota State University
  • Bacterial leaf blight developing in winter wheat
• Purdue University
  • Spring applied wheat herbicide, crop stage restrictions, weed control spectrum, soybean plant back timing, and liquid carrier recommendations

Tips

• Email/call/text (402-580-5725) me if you find leaf or stripe rust (what disease and county). I will make a map by county if I get reports!
• Save the Date – Winter Wheat Variety Trial Tour – June 13, 2019 near Fairbury
• Save the Date – Wheat and Pulse Crop Field Day on June 18, 2019 at the Eastern Nebraska Research and Extension Center near Mead

Please feel free to email me and other wheat farmers in eastern Nebraska that are a part of this email group with comments or questions!

You can view previous weekly emails at https://croptechcafe.org/winterwheat/

This email is part of the Winter Wheat Works Initiative, a local University of Nebraska-Lincoln 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.