Source: USDA'S NASS NC FIELD OFFICE, 6/11/18

SOIL MOISTURE PERCENT 
VS ST A SS
Topsoil Moisture 2 19 71 8
Subsoil Moisture 1 11 80 8
VS= Very Short ST = Short A = Adequate SS = Surplus


DAYS SUITABLE FOR FIELD WORK
This Week Last Week Last Year 5-Year Avg.
6.3 3.0 5.5 5.3

CROP CONDITION PERCENT
VP P F G EX
Apples 0 8 21 70 1
Barley 0 8 29 49 14
Corn 5 12 29 47 7
Cotton 8 9 20 59 4
Hay 1 13 44 38 4
Oats 0 2 13 84 1
Pasture 1 3 31 61 4
Peaches 0 16 22 60 2
Peanuts 0 2 30 59 9
Sorghum 0 0 16 80 4
Soybeans 0 2 38 56 4
Sweet Potatoes 0 0 30 68 2
Tobacco: Burley 1 2 41 24 31
Tobacco: Flue-cured 1 5 18 69 7
VP = Very Poor P = Poor F = Fair G = Good EX = Excellent

CROP PROGRESS PERCENT – WITH COMPARISONS 
This Week  Last Week  Last Year  5 Yr. Avg.
PLANTED:
Cotton 92 84 93 95
Peanuts 93 85 89 94
Sorghum 66 45 70 51
Soybeans 68 54 66 62
Sweet Potatoes 60 47 60 56
Tobacco: Burley 57 40 63 75
PHENOLOGICAL:
Soybean Emerged 54 46 55 50
HARVESTED:
Barley 37 n/a 47 31
Hay: First Cutting 83 68 77 83
Oats 35 n/a 49 30
Wheat 30 n/a 35 17
Wheat 1 5 26 60 8

COUNTY EXTENSION AGENT REPORTS
Weather this past week was very good for hay harvest. Some
scattered showers. Corn is looking good. Vegetable crops are
looking good.
Julia Houck – Alleghany /Ashe FSA

This period has seem some drying from the tropical moisture of
the previous weeks. Topsoil moisture is "Average Wet" and
subsoil moisture is saturated. Some hay was cut and baled with
the dry weather, but some hay fields still standing and beyond
maturity. Isolated Thunderstorms produced some rainfall of .25" to
1" across the counties in spotty locations. Temperatures were
warm with highs in 80s and lows in 60s.
Robert Hawk – Swain County Extension

Great progress was made last week with remaining first cutting on
hay being completed. Tobacco transplanting was for the most part
completed last week. Corn crop is highly variable with early corn
that was delayed on side-dress stressing for nitrogen. Later
planted corn is poor in the low areas of fields.
Brandon Poole – Agronomist Region 8

We finally had a dry enough week to start harvesting small grain
and plant soybeans. We also needed a little dry weather on the
tobacco crop. Disease did start showing up in the tobacco crop.
We saw some TSW and Granville Wilt showing up in some fields.
The drier weather made it possible to cut hay again.
Charles Mitchell – Franklin County Extension

Busy week as everyone tried to catch up from delays caused by
wet weather in the previous weeks. Tobacco crop is coming on
fast and looking good for the most part, though spotty areas were
lost or damaged due to drowning.
Zachary Taylor – Lee County Extension

Fields drying up back to hot humid weather. Wheat harvest
delayed by soils still too wet for combines. Tobacco crop
improving but slowly. Corn is improving slowly, soybeans not
done planting.
Gary Cross – Person County Extension

Over wet conditions have led to wheat fungus and sprouting.
Daniel Shires – Cleveland County Extension

Scattered rainfall, especially along coastal areas delaying or
preventing field work. Farmers still trying to apply remaining
nitrogen to corn. A small percent of soybean fields are likely to be
replanted due to poor emergence due to standing water in fields
Mike Carroll – Carteret County Extension

We have had a lot of rainfall over the last 3 weeks ranging from 5-
17inches of rain depending on the part of the county. This has
drowned right many areas of corn. This has brought on many
issues such as not being able to make lay by applications in corn,
nutrient leaching issues in field crops, and replanting decisions.
Farmers have been able to get in some fields this week. Wheat
harvest picked up this week.
Blake Sandlin – Duplin County Extension

Severe thunderstorms in parts of the county is keeping farmers
out of the fields. Wheat harvest, topdressing corn and soybean
planting progress is slow. Water damage to some blueberries has
occurred but picking continues with growers indicating prices are
good. NC Blueberry Festival June 15-16.
Mark Seitz/Tim Matthews – Pender County Extension

Soil conditions have dried out rapidly. Corn showing signs of
stress as it enters the tasseling stage. Reports of above average
yield for much of the wheat crop as harvest continues. Some
growers waiting on rain before they resume soybean planting.
Mac Malloy – Robeson County Extension

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