Why You'll Want to Sample for SCN This Fall - Soybean Home: CropWatch comprehensive crops site - soybean production and pest management information
Oct. 27, 2014
$45 million.
That's how much Nebraska soybean farmers are estimated to have lost to soybean cyst nematodes (SCN) last year.
The good news is that loss will decrease in 2014. The bad news is that's because the price of soybeans is lower, not because SCN is any less common.
New UNL Class on Soybean Breeding for Disease Resistance - Soybean Home: CropWatch comprehensive crops site - soybean production and pest management information
A new distance education class studying the effects of water molds on soybeans is being offered through UNL's Department of Agronomy and Horticulture. Breeding for Disease Resistance, a case study on Oomycete diseases in soybeans, is available as a self-paced graduate course for one credit.
USDA NASS: Crop Progress and Condition - Soybean Home: CropWatch comprehensive crops site - soybean production and pest management information
Harvest of corn (7% complete) and soybean (6% complete) were just getting underway Monday when USDA National Agriculture Statistics Service reported on Nebraska crop conditions and progress.
Topsoil moisture supplies rated 4% very short, 23 short, 70% adequate, and 3% surplus. Subsoil moisture supplies rated 8% very short, 25% short, 65% adequate, and 2% surplus.
Frost/Freeze Effects on Corn and Soybean - Soybean Home: CropWatch comprehensive crops site - soybean production and pest management information
My grandfather liked to say there was nothing wrong with Hooper, except that it had never made up its mind, alternately wanting to be Lubbock, Texas or Duluth, Minn.
Why Soybean Variety is Critical to Improving Farm Yield - Soybean Home: CropWatch comprehensive crops site - soybean production and pest management information
Managing Soybean Harvest Timing, Moisture to Improve Yield - Soybean Home: CropWatch comprehensive crops site - soybean production and pest management information
Learn How to Identify and Manage SCN at Sept. 4 Field Day - Soybean Home: CropWatch comprehensive crops site - soybean production and pest management information
Farmers and ag professionals can learn how to identify and manage soybean cyst nematode (SCN) at a UNL Extension field day this Thursday (Sept. 4) near Bassett.
Last year, soybean cyst nematodes cost Nebraska soybean growers over $45 million, more than all other soybean diseases combined. If you have SCN in your fields and are not managing it, you contributed to that loss.