Tennessee crops are off to a strong start this year. The USDA reports weather was favorable for planting and transplanting crops and cutting hay. Corn is rated 78% good to excellent with 97% planted and 87% emerged. emerged. Soybeans are 68% planted with 50% of the crop emerged. Cotton is rated 71% good to excellent and 85% of the crop planted with 2% squaring. Winter wheat is rated 73% good […]
The warm and dry weather gave Minnesota farmers almost six and a half days suitable for fieldwork. USDA statistician Dan Lofthus says farmers were planting, spraying, and cutting hay in the week ending Sunday. Minnesota’s corn planting is 93% finished, almost a week ahead of average. Corn emergence is at 69% with the crop condition at 68% good, 18% fair, and just 12% excellent. The state’s soybean planting is 86% […]
A central Illinois grain farmer says a hot, dry spell could stress row crops this week. Elliott Uphoff of Shelby County tells Brownfield they haven’t had rain in a couple of weeks. “We’re dry, but we’re not hurting yet. It’s going to be getting to that point. Probably early next week, we’re going to be needing the rain pretty bad.” He says high daytime temperatures are making corn and soybean […]
The USDA says planting progressed in Ohio last week despite some concerns about dryness. Topsoil moisture is rated 45 percent very short to short and subsoil moisture is rated 29 percent very short to short. Eighty-nine percent of the state’s corn crop is planted, 54 percent of the crop has emerged, and 81 percent is rated good to excellent. Soybean planting is 87 percent complete. Forty-five percent of the crop […]
A Northeast Arkansas farmer says this is the earliest he’s had a crop planted since 2005. Derek Haigwood says his corn and soybean crops look good. “Our corn and soybeans are spot on,” he says. “We got them in early. They came up nicely, no weather pressure on the soybeans as of yet. The corn in the sandier ground is showing some dryness. So we’ll start turning on the wells.” […]
Illinois crops are off to a good start, despite drier than average conditions. The USDA reports as of Sunday 95% of corn is planted with 84% emerged and a condition rating of 69% good to excellent. Soybeans are 92% planted with 76% emerged and the crop is considered 63% good to excellent. 93% of winter wheat has headed and the agency rates the crop 66% good to excellent. The first […]
Hot dry weather last week led to abnormally dry conditions along parts of Lake Michigan’s shoreline. As of Sunday, the USDA says all sugarbeets have been planted and 95 percent emerged. Corn and soybeans are 80 percent planted, still ahead of last year and the five-year average. Winter wheat condition dropped to 54 percent good to excellent with 89 percent jointed. Alfalfa’s first cutting is 19 percent finished. Caleb Coulter with […]
The USDA says another dry week left many farmers hoping for rain in Indiana. Topsoil moisture is rated 40 percent very short to short and subsoil moisture is rated 35 percent very short to short. Ninety-two percent of the state’s corn crop is planted, 71 percent of the crop has emerged, and 72 percent is rated good to excellent. Soybean planting is 88 percent complete. Sixty-three percent of the crop […]
Corn and soybean planting is almost wrapped up for many Nebraska farmers. Clay Govier farms in the central area of the state and says timely rains have crops off to a good start. “Once we got past that cold weather and things decided to stay consistently warm, things are emerging and in pretty good shape.” USDA says 96 percent of the corn crop has been planted with 81 percent […]
