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Drier Weather Helps Advance Corn Harvest
Wisconsin Ag Connection - 10/15/2014

Crop producers had a nice block of time during the past week to harvest corn and work on fall tillage activities. The weekly crop/progress report said dry days with below average temperatures allowed fieldwork to advance rapidly--though field conditions were still muddy in northern parts of the state.

For most areas of the state, corn was being chopped for silage and combined for high moisture feed. Some of the crop is already being harvested for grain in the south. Fourth crop hay cutting slowed as silage and soybeans took priority. The five major reporting stations received no measurable precipitation last week.

As of Sunday, about 94 percent of corn was in or beyond the dent stage and 66 percent was mature. Corn for grain was seven percent harvested going into this week. Corn for silage was 67 percent chopped, up 20 percentage points from the previous week.

Ninety percent of soybeans had leaves dropping and about 30 percent has been harvested. Soybeans condition was rated 72 percent good to excellent.

And winter wheat was 60 percent planted and 28 percent emerged. Reporters say the fourth cutting of alfalfa was 86 percent off the fields. Fall tillage was 20 percent complete.


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