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Weather continues to prolong harvest

Frequent rainfalls halted harvest progress for much of the state last week.  According to the latest Crop and Weather report 31 percent of both corn and soybeans have been harvested – slightly more than a week ago.  The average moisture content of harvested corn is 21 percent and 14 percent for soybeans. Ninety-four percent of the corn crop has reached maturity and 96 percent of soybeans have begun dropping leaves.

In other crops around the state, 85 percent of tobacco has been harvested and 90 percent of alfalfa is on its 4^th cutting of hay.  Just 37 percent of winter wheat has been planted well behind last year’s 61 percent.

With the abundance of rainfall, 97 percent of the Topsoil moisture and 96 percent of Subsoil moisture are adequate to surplus.