August 27, 2010

On this week's Market Journal Drew Lyon, extension dryland crops specialist, cautions growers about planting wheat into this year's wheat stubble due to increased risk of pest and other problems. He encourages growers to stay with their planned rotation. Lyon, a wheat production expert at the UNL Panhandle Research and Extension Center in Scottsbluff, discusses the topic with program host and extension farm management specialist, Doug Jose. (View this segment below and view all of this week's show on the Market Journal website or on the stations listed below.  Also, see more on this topic in Lyon's story in CropWatch, Planting Wheat after Wheat May Increase Pest Risk.)

Also on this week's program:

• Extension stays focused on the local level. Elbert Dickey, dean and director of UNL Extension, says it's important to keep the university's resources close to the people who live and work in the state and extension is a key means for doing just that.
   
• Cattle markets are improving. Matt Stockton, extension agricultural economist, says the inventories of cattle combined with some increases in exports point to strong cattle markets.
   
• Recommendations for improving the beef herd.  Rick Funston, extension beef reproductive physiologist, encourages ranchers to look at their operation as a system from calving to harvesting the steers and adding heifers to the breeding herd. Funston says that having cows calve in the early part of the calving season is the most important factor in the profitability of the herd.
   
• It looks like a typical fall.  Al Dutcher, extension state climatologist, says tempeartures will be in the 80s to low 90s much of the next week with chances of scattered showers mid week. The 8-14 day forecast is for normal temperatures and rainfall for this time of year.

Next Week

The Sept. 3 Market Journal will feature an analysis of the strengthening hog market; a discussion of food recalls and how to build trust in the production sector, and an update on stalk rot in corn.  Also, Mark Lagramini, head of the UNL Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, will discuss the services available to producers in the newly remodeled Keim Hall on UNL's East Campus.

Broadcast Times

NET1 – Saturday, 7 a.m. CT
NET2 – Sunday, 9 a.m. CT
Dish Network, Channel 9411

Friday, 12:30 p.m. CT
Sunday, 9:30 p.m. CT
Wednesday, 8:30 a.m. CT

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UNL Extension Dryland Crops Specialist Drew Lyon discusses the risks of planting wheat into wheat stubble on this week's Market Journal.