What’s Up This Wheat? May 6

Hello All,

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

Weather

• Quantitative Precipitation Forecasts – 5-Day Total Precipitation – Higher amounts expected in southeast Nebraska
• May and May-June-July Outlooks for Temperature and Precipitation – Cool and wet…
• AgRisk Viewer USDA Southwest Climate Hub – What is the weather risk to (search by county, region, state)? Cool tool if you like data!

Highlight(s) in the Media

• USDA: Ag Research Develops Calculation Correction for Gain Quality Test (Falling number)
• Successful Farming: Wheat scouts peg 2019 Kansas crop at 47.2 bushels per acre
• Farm Futures: Afternoon Market Recap for May 6, 2019 – Wheat prices were narrowly mixed…

Economics

• Winter wheat crop condition – The Hightower Report
• Wheat Reports from CME Group – Periodic Report, Supply Charts, Demand Charts, Fundamental Reference
• USDA Agricultural Projections to 2028 – U.S. Crop page 19-38

Agronomics

• University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension CropWatch Articles
  • Eastern Nebraska Winter Wheat Update – Lots of good information!
  • Evaluating Winter Wheat for Use as Forage or Grain
  • Panhandle Wheat Report
  • Assessing Freeze Injury in Winter Wheat
• K-State Agronomy eUpdates
  • 2019 Kansas Wheat Crop Conditions: A report following the Wheat Quality Tour
  • Decision time of foliar fungicides for wheat producers in southern Kansas
  • Risk of Fusarium head blight suggest potential problems for southeast Kansas

Tips

• Start scouting fields for foliar diseases. Email me if you find leaf of stripe rust (what disease and county). FYI, scouting happens before spraying!
• 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.