What’s Up This Wheat? Sept. 23-29

Hello All,

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

Weather

• Nebraska Drought Monitor for Sept. 20 – No areas in eastern Nebraska are under an abnormally dry or drought. How does this compare to last year at this time? Sept. 19, 2017 the southern tier of counties (Nuckolls to Richardson) were abnormally dry to D1 Drought with a few other abnormally dry pockets in the northeast and east central areas. Compare two weeks for yourself at http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Maps/CompareTwoWeeks.aspx
• Significant or above normal rainfall this September across most of eastern Nebraska except the western portion of northeast Nebraska (Knox, Cedar, Antelope, and Pierce) View at NOAA Quantitative Precipitation Estimates
• 26 Nebraska Mesonet Weather Stations in eastern Nebraska
  • 6 new stations added in 2018 at in Platte, Burt, Washington, Saunders, Lancaster, and Cass counties

Highlight(s) in the Media

• Frost wreaking havoc through WA and VIC (Australia)
• Oklahoma State University launches four new wheat varieties

Economics: Supply and Market Facilitation Program

• USDA-ERS Wheat Outlook, Sept. 14 – Very little change in planted acres (23.23 million acres, 2018-19) expected for U.S. hard red winter wheat from last fall (23.43 millon acres 2017-18) shown on page 19 of the report.
• USDA-NASS Small Grains Annual Summary pending release this Friday, Sept. 28
• USDA-FSA Market Facilitation Program for wheat ($0.14 per bushel)

Agronomics

• UNL CropWatch Articles
  • 2018 Nebraska Variety Testing Summary and Fall Seed Guide
  • Should I Plant Treated Wheat Seed?
• K-State Agronomy eUpdates:
  • Optimum sowing dates and seeding rates for wheat in Kansas
  • Evaluate wheat seed size to improve wheat seeding density and final stand
  • Seed drill calibration to improve wheat seed distribution
• Crop Tech Cafe – Winter Wheat Cafe for Eastern Nebraska
  • New 1-page fact sheet on improving soil health with winter wheat
  • New 1-page how-to on evaluating winter wheat stands later this fall and next spring
  • New 2019 Eastern Nebraska Hard Red Winter Wheat Variety Selection Table (Excel)
  • Winter Wheat Seeding Rate Calculator Tool – Excel
  • Updated table with varieties with moderate resistance to Fusarium head blight “scab”– scroll down to find on Winter Wheat Cafe page
• New Kansas Wheat Alliance Variety Placement Tool includes Nebraska: Select Your Region

Tips

• Check out all the resources for winter wheat production in eastern Nebraska at the Winter Wheat Cafe for Eastern Nebraska
• #wheat, follow this organization on Twitter – @uswheatassoc – feed by U.S. Wheat Associates

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.

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.