Sensitive Crops: Hops

Katie Kreuser, Craig Romary Author

11/30/2018 Added

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A potential new alternative crop in Nebraska is hops, used in the brewing industry. However, hops are one of several crops sensitive to dicamba herbicides. A segment about DriftWatch provides increased awareness about off-target dicamba movement.

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[00:00:01.175](upbeat playful music)
[00:00:16.622]Good afternoon, I'm Katie Kreuser
[00:00:18.727]I'm the Hop Program coordinator
[00:00:20.686]for the University of Nebraska Extension.
[00:00:23.135]We're out here at the UNL hop plots on east campus
[00:00:27.396]to talk about
[00:00:28.656]hops and their sensitivity to drift.
[00:00:31.390]In recent years, hops have emerged
[00:00:33.255]as a high-value specialty crop
[00:00:35.030]in many states including Nebraska.
[00:00:38.028]Hops are the cones or the flowers
[00:00:40.123]of the annual bines that emerge each year
[00:00:42.636]and from a perennial crown.
[00:00:44.746]And they grow clockwise,
[00:00:45.917]up an 18 foot tall trellis system.
[00:00:49.417]The oil and the lupulin from these cones
[00:00:51.924]is primarily used as a bittering agent
[00:00:54.586]or to provide some unique aromas
[00:00:57.209]in beer production.
[00:00:59.089]Annually, one acre of aroma hops produces
[00:01:02.035]between 800 and 1,900 pounds,
[00:01:04.747]and alpha varieties produce an average
[00:01:06.816]of 3,000 pounds dried hops.
[00:01:09.564]In Nebraska, yields translate to
[00:01:11.417]an income of 15 to 22,000 per acre,
[00:01:15.286]and cost about $15 per pound of pelletized hops.
[00:01:19.411]Today, the state has over 50 acres in hop production,
[00:01:22.997]which has steadily increased over the last four years.
[00:01:26.489]In beer production depending on the style of beer
[00:01:29.536]as little as one pound or as much
[00:01:31.478]as eight or more pounds of hops are used
[00:01:33.779]in making a single barrel of beer.
[00:01:36.610]In 2017, Nebraska brewers produced
[00:01:38.760]53,655 barrels of beer,
[00:01:42.872]using about 160,965 pounds of hops,
[00:01:47.934]if each barrel had an average of three pounds of hops.
[00:01:51.744]Like other specialty crops, hops are sensitive
[00:01:54.606]to 2,4-D, glyphostate, dicamba,
[00:01:56.688]and many other herbicides.
[00:01:58.945]Because hops are increasingly playing roles
[00:02:01.338]in farm diversification, they are often grown
[00:02:03.947]in close proximity to row crops,
[00:02:06.031]making them increasingly susceptible to drift.
[00:02:09.698]Additionally, their height
[00:02:10.915]of 18 feet at season maturity,
[00:02:13.281]places them at an even greater risk
[00:02:15.713]for drift damage.
[00:02:17.765]Drift has the potential to severely damage
[00:02:19.955]or even kill hop plants,
[00:02:21.448]especially in their first two years of growth
[00:02:23.663]when the plants are still growing
[00:02:25.115]to full maturity.
[00:02:26.962]Total losses to drift per acre can reach
[00:02:29.394]up to $25,000 when considering
[00:02:32.345]yield loss and total plant loss,
[00:02:35.518]and can deeply impact farmers.
[00:02:38.122]Educational programming platforms
[00:02:39.953]such as DriftWatch,
[00:02:41.138]and an increased awareness of specialty crops
[00:02:43.213]together can help reduce crop damages
[00:02:45.480]and losses due to drift.
[00:02:48.136](upbeat playful music)
[00:02:55.478]Hello, my name's Craig Romary
[00:02:57.481]with the Nebraska Department of Agriculture
[00:02:59.530]and today I'll be talking about
[00:03:00.920]DriftWatch and BeeCheck.
[00:03:03.436]Both of these can be considered the same thing,
[00:03:07.185]they're an online registry and map
[00:03:09.121]for commercial specialty crops
[00:03:11.359]that usually are smaller in size
[00:03:13.678]and may not be as noticeable out there
[00:03:15.783]in the landscape.
[00:03:17.487]They're potentially more sensitive
[00:03:19.071]to pesticide injury and crop loss.
[00:03:23.314]The main purpose of this service
[00:03:25.679]is to promote two-way communication
[00:03:28.455]between pesticide applicators and the people
[00:03:31.234]that have those specialty crops and apiary sites.
[00:03:35.286]This is an example of the DriftWatch map
[00:03:37.903]showing a variety of crops.
[00:03:41.025]And you can zoom into those locations
[00:03:42.955]to get a better idea of where they're at.
[00:03:46.401]And you can click on any of those bubbles
[00:03:48.979]to get the contact information
[00:03:50.898]or the grower having that site,
[00:03:53.788]if they have made that contact information available.
[00:03:57.056]And if so, you can contact them
[00:03:58.688]and let them know what you plan
[00:04:00.608]to do in that area.
[00:04:03.571]So there are three ways you can use this service
[00:04:06.444]the first way is to just simply
[00:04:09.021]go to the website,
[00:04:09.854]and I'll provide that URL later.
[00:04:12.882]And this is free of charge,
[00:04:14.169]you'll be able to see all of the crop sites
[00:04:16.664]and most of the beehives.
[00:04:18.383]Beekeepers have the option to only display
[00:04:21.159]their sites to registered applicators,
[00:04:23.900]Applicators who are registered in DriftWatch.
[00:04:27.174]And so you may not see all of them
[00:04:29.071]at the public map.
[00:04:30.739]The second way is to register yourself
[00:04:34.032]on FieldWatch and DriftWatch as an applicator.
[00:04:37.089]And that's also free of charge.
[00:04:39.270]You'll be able to see all of the crop sites
[00:04:41.560]all of the beehives,
[00:04:42.684]and you'll get Email notifications
[00:04:44.532]when new information is added to the map
[00:04:47.045]in the area that you select.
[00:04:49.250]And lastly, on this section you'll be able
[00:04:51.451]to download the FieldCheck App,
[00:04:53.401]and that's new this year available
[00:04:55.436]on your smartphone so that you'll have
[00:04:57.188]that information readily at hand.
[00:05:00.583]And that last thing is a data membership
[00:05:04.149]for data subscription.
[00:05:05.978]And that is annual fee from FieldWatch
[00:05:09.102]and by having that, you'll be able to
[00:05:12.307]get these data to your mapping software.
[00:05:15.889]And that is also free of charge for federal,
[00:05:18.474]local, state government agencies as well.
[00:05:20.828]So please you can take advantage of that service.
[00:05:24.601]So this is the website, fieldwatch.com.
[00:05:28.610]And this is where applicators need to go
[00:05:30.617]to register.
[00:05:31.601]Clicking this image right here of the airplane.
[00:05:34.357]And it's also called FieldWatch.
[00:05:36.794]And if you don't wanna register,
[00:05:38.785]if you just wanna go to the DriftWatch map,
[00:05:41.850]you can go to the address down at the bottom
[00:05:44.190]of the screen.
[00:05:46.506]And that's all I have, if you have any questions
[00:05:49.663]this is my contact information.
[00:05:51.570]And I'll try to help you as best I can.
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