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Chilly Crop Report Shows Harvest Lingering into November
Wisconsin Ag Connection - 11/13/2019

Farmers who are continuing to play catch up with their 2019 harvest obligations were met face to face with Old Man Winter this past week. The weekly crop progress report from the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture on Tuesday noted that temperatures averaged about ten degrees below normal as overnight lows dropped into the single digits. Fortunately for some producers, the hard freeze improved access to wet fields. But tillage and manure spreading halted as snow fell and the ground hardened, leaving some with insufficient manure storage space free for the winter.

In the corn fields, the statewide corn for grain harvest was less than a third-complete as of Sunday. That's three full weeks behind last year and 18 days lower than the five-year average. Farmers who are chopping their corn for silage are further along at 92 percent complete, but the moisture content remains high at 24 percent.

Soybean growers have 71 percent of their crop off the ground, which is nine days more than it took in 2018 and 15 days behind normal.

The summary estimated that all but 20 percent of the winter wheat has been planted, with just 55 percent emerged.

Fall tillage progress is also two weeks behind schedule at 31 percent wrapped up for the season.

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