CropWatch podcasts and CropWatch.unl.edu offer research-based, timely information on crop production, pest management, management systems, and related information for Nebraska farmers and agribusiness. A central resource for University of Nebraska–Lincoln Extension information, CropWatch podcasts feature Nebraska Extension educators and specialists. For more information on these topics see CropWatch.unl.edu, where new articles are published weekly during the crop season.
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CropWatch podcasts and CropWatch.unl.edu offer research-based, timely information on crop production, pest management, management systems, and related information for Nebraska farmers and agribusiness. A central resource for University of Nebraska–Lincoln Extension information, CropWatch podcasts feature Nebraska Extension educators and specialists. For more information on these topics see CropWatch.unl.edu, where new articles are published weekly during the crop season.
In this episode, Karen Braun of Zaner comes on to talk about weather related challenges with the season's corn and soybean crops, what the USDA report showed today on yield and stock numbers, and what China is or more importantly isn't buying in terms of soybean and how that will affect acreage numbers next year.
The 2025 season brought lots of diseases and in this episode we get into the details of the diseases and the weather that favored them.
#southernrust #tarspot #Nebraska
In this episode Dr. Scott Irwin, Lawrence J. Norton chair of Agricultural Marketing, offers a history lesson and a very informative update on 45Z and the broader renewable fuels sector. He discusses why the changes in tax credits in the OBBB will be beneficial to ethanol producers but detrimental to SAF. He discusses why ethanol may have a brief resurgence and why hybrid cars are a bigger threat to ethanol than full electric vehicles in the next several years. We finish up with some discussion on carbon intensity scores and Scott discusses why indirect land use charges related to CI scores may make sense in theory but in practice is unfair.
In this #climate stories episode Dr. Sam Childs shares stories about #severeweather from Indiana and Colorado, including a time he had to get his dorm residents at Purdue to safety during a wintertime tornado warning. He then shifts into discussing how we use a #skewT to assess whether the #atmosphere can produce #thunderstorm and why the terms CAPE and CIN are crucial. Finally, he finishes with some discussion about how storms could change with #climatechange.
CropWatch podcasts and CropWatch.unl.edu offer research-based, timely information on crop production, pest management, management systems, and related information for Nebraska farmers and agribusiness. A central resource for University of Nebraska–Lincoln Extension information, CropWatch podcasts feature Nebraska Extension educators and specialists. For more information on these topics see CropWatch.unl.edu, where new articles are published weekly during the crop season.
