Fall Freeze Risk as of early September (Table 1)
September 10, 2019
Corn and Soybean Condition Steady; Dry Bean Drops
August 29, 2019
For the week ending August 18, USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service reported the following crop condition and progress:
UNL-TAPS Expanding To Include Winter Wheat Competition in the Panhandle
August 28, 2019
Winter wheat production is being added to the slate of UNL-TAPS contests for the next year. The competition will debut at a kickoff meeting Friday, September 6, at the High Plains Ag Lab near Sidney.
Data for Forecasted Corn Yields as of August 21, 2019
August 22, 2019
Table 1. Data from simulations of 2019 end-of-season corn yield potential and real-time crop stage performed on August 21. (Full story at https://cropwatch.unl.edu/2019/2019-corn-yield-forecasts-august-21).
2019 Corn Yield Forecasts as of August 21
August 22, 2019
There is a high probability of near- or above-average yields at all but two of the 37 locations studied. Corn has reached dough stage at most locations, except for irrigated corn in western and north-central Nebraska, northern North Dakota and Minnesota, and the eastern fringe of the region (Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio).
USDA Reports 400,000 Acres of Prevented Plant Cropland in Nebraska
August 15, 2019
Crop producers across Nebraska reported more than 400,000 acres as prevented plant in 2019, ranking 16th nationally. How typical was your county? View county and state numbers from the USDA Farm Service Agency.
Gap Growing Between Irrigated, Rainfed Crop Yields
August 13, 2019
A 65-year comparative analysis between U.S. yields of irrigated and rainfed crops has sounded a message to farmers, land managers and policymakers: Mind the gap. Researchers analyzed annual yields of nine crops on a county-by-county basis from 1950 to 2015.
Fall Freeze Risk, August 2019 (Table 1)
August 8, 2019