A wet week kept harvest to a minimum in the Badger State last week. The weekly Crop Progress Report from the National Ag Statistics Service Wisconsin Field Office says precipitation varied from 1.47 inches in Madison to 2.86 inches in La Crosse. The Shawano County reporter says they got 3.5 inches for the week. For the first time in quite some time, no soil moisture ratings in the “very short” category and only 3 percent is listed as “short”. More than half, 56 percent is rated “adequate and 41 percent rated “surplus”. The southeastern district is the wettest with 69 percent surplus.
The Wisconsin corn crop did mature another 11 points for the week with 81 percent of the crop now mature. That is still 10 points behind the five-year average for this date and harvest is just 9 percent complete compared to 37 percent normally by now. The crop is rated 60 percent in good to excellent condition, 28 percent fair. Corn silage is 91 percent chopped, 8 points behind normal.
Soybean combining is about one-third what it should be by now, 25 percent harvested compared to 73 percent normally in the bin at this date. The crop is rated 32 percent fair, 59 percent good to excellent condition.
Winter wheat planting is 65 percent complete, 37 percent emerged; fall tillage is 21 percent done compared to 25 percent for the five-year average.
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