Nebraska CropWatch

In this episode of Fridays with a Scientist, Dr. Judah Cohen of Verisk Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc. joins to talk about what arctic amplification is, how it is linked to the rapid warming of the Arctic, and how it is linked to extreme cold outbreaks in the central and eastern U.S. in the past few decades. His blog can be found here: https://www.aer.com/science-research/climate-weather/arctic-oscillation/

In this week's episode, Dr. Travis (TJ) Prochaska of UNL Extension joins to talk about his experiences serving as an educator in North Dakota before moving back home to Nebraska. We discuss a wide variety of topics including the shifting crop landscape in North Dakota, the different crops he's worked with, how drought seems to be following him, and the different pests and diseases in his Accountability Region.

In this week's episode Amanda Folck, Turfgrass Extension specialist at UNL, talks about her internship with the Arsenal (English Premier League), her experiences working with athletic departments at Texas A&M, Purdue, and Nebraska, her collaboration with Hillcrest and other golf courses in the state, the impact of drought to the most common cool season grasses and why bermuda grass doesn't grow well up here.

In this episode, Dr. John Carroll joins to talk about his experience being a leader and director of a large academic unit during COVID. Then we chat for a while about how universities are dealing with artificial intelligence like Chat GPT.

In the latest podcast I discuss who has the best chance at picking up more than 2" of snow, the potential for snow to affect the football game and for light icing issues in southeast Nebraska. It will be a cold Halloween and then turn mild as we head into later next week.

In this episode of Fridays with a Scientist Taylor Grace, a Ph.D. candidate in OU's School of Meteorology, joins the podcast to talk about wintertime heat waves and its impact on agriculture, with a focus on a December 2021 case that affected the Southern Great Plains.

In this interview, Dr. Adams-Selin from Verisk Atmospheric and Environmental Research explains why #hail is more common in the #greatplains than elsewhere, why size of hail alone doesn't explain all agricultural hail damage, about recent advancements in understanding of hail development, and the potential for a 2-year field campaign to fill in significant knowledge gaps.

In this episode, Dylan and Kyle talk about the various weather related issues that caused problems for soybean in Nebraska in 2023. They also go in depth on many of the diseases they have or are seeing in the clinic. For more information on the clinic visit: https://plantpathology.unl.edu/plant-pest-diagnostic-clinic

In this episode of FWAS, Dr. Nathan Mueller of University of Nebraska Extension discusses why the previous season was so challenging for wheat in southeast Nebraska, why fall moisture is so vital, benefits of snow cover in the winter, issues with excessive wetness in May, and why wheat is not more prominent in northeast Nebraska.

Highlights from the outlook include frost/freeze risk Saturday morning, pleasant weather first part of next week, a possible storm next Wednesday-Thursday that could deliver much needed rainfall to parts of southern Nebraska. In the update portion, highlights include a look at precipitation over the last week, soil moisture, and a review of growing season precipitation across the state and broader north central U.S.