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Program Manager/State Entomologist
Animal and Plant Health Protection
Nebraska State Department of Agriculture
(402) 471-6847
Julie.vanmeter@nebraska.gov

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.

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Handling and Storing Corn and Soybeans - Soybean Home: CropWatch comprehensive crops site - soybean production and pest management information

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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.

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Why Soybean Variety is Critical to Improving Farm Yield - Soybean Home: CropWatch comprehensive crops site - soybean production and pest management information

Extension Educator Nathan Mueller talks with Market Journal host Jeff Wilkerson about the importance of selecting soybean varieties for pest management as well as yield improvement.

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Managing Soybean Harvest Timing, Moisture to Improve Yield - Soybean Home: CropWatch comprehensive crops site - soybean production and pest management information

Photo of field of maturing soybeans
Figure 1. Some of the first yellow leaves are beginning to show up in soybean fields across Nebraska. (Photos by Gary Zoubek)

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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.

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Stem and Root Rots in Soybean - Soybean Home: CropWatch comprehensive crops site - soybean production and pest management information

Also see this Market Journal segment where the author discusses late season soybean diseases.

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Scheduling the Last Irrigation of the Season - Soybean Home: CropWatch comprehensive crops site - soybean production and pest management information

Soybeans under irrigation
Irrigating soybeans in late August. (Photo by Troy Ingram)

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