Wisconsin Ag Connection - A Warm Week for October Harvest Activity

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A Warm Week for October Harvest Activity
Wisconsin Ag Connection - 10/18/2016

Although scattered showers kept grain moistures levels high in many parts of the state, farmers were still busy harvesting soybeans and working on fall tillage during the past week. The Wisconsin Ag Statistics Service noted in its latest crop report that cooler temperatures midweek gave way to humid days in the upper 60s and low 70s by the weekend. Reporters in southern Wisconsin commented that there had not been a killing frost yet, and that colder weather would help crops to dry down.

As of Sunday, all but four percent of the state's corn acreage was mature. The average moisture of corn harvested for grain was 21 percent, three percentage points lower than last week. Corn for silage was 96 percent harvested statewide.

In the soybean fields, about half of the crop is now through the combine, which is about five days behind average.

Seventy percent of winter wheat was planted. And the fourth cutting of alfalfa was 95 percent complete.

The report stated that fall tillage is now about 23 percent complete.

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