March 20, 2020

CropWatch March 20, 2020

COVID-19 Impacts

a tractor applying pesticide

PSEP: Online Certification Options

Nebraska Extension has canceled all in-person training, including chemigation and pesticide applicator training, starting March 16, 2020. The COVID-19 Information page on the PSEP website will serve as a hub for PSEP-related information during the interrupted training season.
Market Journal's Troy Moling reporting on COVID-19

Market Journal: COVID-19 and Agriculture

This week’s edition of Market Journal includes two segments that look at how ag producers can prepare their operation for the impact and how market analysts are reacting to the situation.

Disaster Recovery

chart showing farm income trends since 2000

Disaster, Financial Shocks & Stress - You Aren’t Alone

Everyone confronts times of stress. Know that whatever challenges you have faced, you are not alone!

Farm Management - CPC Proceedings

chart showing changes in farm real estate values

Nebraska Farm Real Estate and Financial Considerations in 2020

Agricultural producers face challenging financial circumstances on their cropland in 2020. While the upcoming production year provides a potentially better outlook, challenges remain for profitability and the health of the operation.

Crop Production - CPC Proceedings

soybeans ready for harvest
Study investigating effects of row spacing, planting date, seeding rate and nitrogen management at Grant, NE (2019).

Seeding Recommendations for Irrigated Soybean and Dryland Corn in West-Central Nebraska

Continuous corn is the most common irrigated crop sequence in southwest Nebraska. Although rotating to other crops, such as soybeans, can mitigate some production issues of continuous corn and often boost the next year’s corn yield, larger adoption of soybean has not readily occurred in this area.

Entomology - CPC Proceedings

Trichogramma on ECB

Novel Strategies for the Management of the Western Bean Cutworm

The western bean cutworm is a pest of corn and dry bean. Typically, control is achieved by pyrethroids or transgenic traits. However, control with pyrethroids may prove difficult and transgenic traits are not available for dry bean. Biological control may prove to be a useful tool for growers of both crops.
fence row of a wheat field

Advances in Understanding the Management of the Wheat Stem Sawfly

Over the past few decades, WSS populations have greatly increased and expanded in the Nebraska Panhandle, becoming the most economically significant pest of wheat.
Process for sampling soybean leaves to assess defoliation

Management of Defoliating Insects in Nebraska Soybeans

Many defoliating insects may be found in Nebraska soybeans. Estimating defoliation levels in fields is the best way to decide whether it will pay to treat for these insects.