After a long spell of hot and dry weather, Wisconsin recorded significant precipitation on Thursday and Sunday of last week to help to replenish soil moisture and get crops back on track. According to the state's agriculture department, some fertilizing and hay baling were reported between showers..
The weekly crop report put topsoil moisture conditions at 19 percent very short, 34 percent short, 46 percent adequate and just one percent surplus.
As of Sunday, all but two percent of the corn was emerged. But reporters only put the crop at 69 percent good to excellent statewide, down two percentage points from a week earlier.
Soybeans were already two percent blooming and rated 62 percent good to excellent.
The oats are 60 percent headed, which is a week ahead of last year and nine days better than the five-year average. The winter wheat is reported at 93 percent headed, with 44 percent of that crop coloring.
And 92 percent of the first alfalfa hay crop has been harvested, with second crop well on its way at 11 percent off the fields.
Categories: Wisconsin, Crops, Corn, Soybeans, Wheat, Hay & Forage, Alfalfa, Weather