What’s Up This Wheat? Sept. 17

Hello All,

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

Weather

• Al’s Forecast on Market Journal – Nebraska Extension Ag Climatologist
• Fall Freeze Statistics for Nebraska Regions from the Nebraska Climate Office
• High Plains Regional Climate Center – August Climate Summary

Highlight(s) in the Media

• Farm Progress: Morning Market Review for Sept. 17
• USDA Winter Wheat Planting Progress for Sept. 16:
  • Kansas – 6% planted, equal to both last year and 5 year average
  • Nebraska – 19% planted, behind 26% average
  • South Dakota – 5% planted, well behind 26% last year and behind the 22% average
• Nebraska Farmer Magazine: State wheat breeding program builds strong foundation

Economics

• USDA Economic Research Service Wheat Outlook, Sept. 16, 2019: “The outlook for global 2019/20 wheat production was lowered 2.5 million metric tons this month on cuts in wheat output for multiple major exporting nations.”
• Local Cash Bids on Sept. 17, 2019
  • ADM Lincoln – 4.36 (+0.30 basis)
  • Scoular Fremont – 4.36 (+0.30 basis)
• Rock Valley Mixed Hay and Bedding Auction in NW, Iowa: Straw prices from Sept. 12

Agronomics

• CropWatch
  • Winter Wheat Varieties for Eastern Nebraska
• Market Journal
  • Winter Wheat & Soil Reminders – Sept 13
• KSU Agronomy eUpdates
  • Optimum sowing dates and seeding rates for wheat in Kansas
  • Wheat seeding tips for good stand establishment
  • Seed drill calibration to improve wheat seed distribution
  • Evaluate wheat seed size to improve seeding density and final stand

Tips

• Use the Crop Tech Cafe Seeding Rate Calculator at croptechcafe.org/winterwheat/
• Order seed (certified and fungicide treated) based on target seeds per acre (not pounds!).
• Start at 1.2 million seeds per acre. Increase seeding rate as planting is delayed through October

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 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.