Nebraska CropWatch

212. Corn and soybean disease update 25.09.2025 51:54 ↓

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

Episode 205. Dr. Scott Irwin (U. Illinois)- Back to the Futures, 45Z and CI scores 05.08.2025 54:53 ↓

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 t...

202. Climate Stories II: Dr. Sam Childs 24.07.2025 1:04:25 ↓

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 s...

201. Short weather update: July 18, 2025 18.07.2025 4:20 ↓

Storm chances will exist over the next week and it will be hot at times, especially across the southern portion of the state. 

200. Disease Update 14.07.2025 59:34 ↓

The 200th episode of the Crop Watch podcast features a detailed discussion with Kyle Broderick, Tamra Jackson-Ziems, and Dylan Mangel about the diseases affecting our crops and gardens and the treatment options for them. 

198. Climate Stories I: Dr. Barb Boustead- Protecting what we cherish 27.06.2025 55:46 ↓

In the first episode of a new podcast series, Dr. Barb Boustead (local meteorologist) discusses her first book: "Wilder Weather: What Laura Ingalls Wilder Teaches Us About the Weather, Climate, and Protecting What We Cherish". Barb focused on the weather-related hardships that Laura experienced as a child, how those experiences shaped her resilience, how we can use those experiences to prepare us...

196: Excessive heat and excessive precipitation 19.06.2025 23:48 ↓

In this episode I discuss the upcoming heat wave and details about heavy precipitation next week in the eastern half of the state. 

193. Weekly Weather Outlook and Update: May 22, 2025 22.05.2025 29:28 ↓

#Rain chances statewide starting tomorrow through Monday evening. Best chance at picking up over an inch in the northwest Sand Hills. Severe storms possible tomorrow afternoon in southwest Nebraska. Rain will be more persistent in the western third of the state over the weekend. Eastern section of the state likely to be dry both Saturday and Sunday afternoons/evenings. Rain chances statewide on Me...

190. Weekly Weather Outlook and Update: May 8, 2025 08.05.2025 22:10 ↓

In this episode I discuss the warm/hot, dry, and breezy weather ahead. Fire danger will be elevated through middle of next week, especially western and central NE. Chance of moisture in the Panhandle Tuesday night but most of the state will be dry through the end of next week. Discussed chances for #rain and #storms next weekend but how it may not be enough to offset the deficits we are accumulati...