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NC Weather & Crops Report for the week ending October 6, 2019
Story Date: 10/8/2019
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Source: USDA'S NASS NC FIELD OFFICE, 10/7/19
SOIL MOISTURE PERCENT
VS ST A SS
Subsoil Moisture 16 53 31 0
Topsoil Moisture 32 48 20 0
VS= Very Short ST = Short A = Adequate SS = Surplus
DAYS SUITABLE FOR FIELD WORK
This Week Last Week Last Year 5-Year Avg.
6.8 6.8 6.5 5.3
CROP CONDITION PERCENT
VP P F G EX
Cotton 11 29 26 28 6
Pasture 18 32 32 16 2
Peanuts 2 2 36 51 9
Sorghum 3 19 34 43 1
Soybeans 8 18 30 35 9
CROP PROGRESS PERCENT – WITH COMPARISONS
This Week Last Week Last Year 5 Yr. Avg.
PHENOLOGICAL:
Cotton Bolls Opening 94 85 92 88
Soybeans Dropping Leaves 73 59 70 59
HARVESTED:
Apples 83 77 80 77
Corn for Grain 91 87 87 86
Corn for Silage 97 92 97 95
Cotton Harvested 16 N/A N/A N/A
Hay: Third Cutting 77 73 69 71
Peanuts Threshed 33 18 23 18
Sorghum for Grain 45 36 32 34
Soybeans 17 14 10 10
Sweet Potatoes 59 47 36 40
Tobacco: Flue-cured 93 88 91 88
Tobacco: Burley 63 53 64 68
VP = Very Poor P = Poor F = Fair G = Good EX = Excellent
COUNTY EXTENSION AGENT REPORTS
Record heat and no rain this week. No grain was planted due to
lack of moisture. .All crops are suffering.
Wayne Rowland – Vance/Warren County Extension
Drying rapidly. Isolated fields of cotton dropping leaves without
boll formation. Soybeans have turned and started to drop leaves in
southern part of county. Small grain planting being delayed due to
lack of moisture. Pasture regrowth is below normal.
Michael Yoder –Wake County Extension
Dry conditions have hampered the development of late
transplanted sweet potatoes and no small grains have been
planted. Tobacco harvest is almost done, peanut harvest is
progressing with most growers harvesting a very good crop and
cotton harvest is just getting going.
Don Nicholson – Agronomist Region 7
Several weeks without rain is resulting in very short soil moisture.
Although harvesting of cotton, peanuts, corn, and soybeans is
benefitting from dry conditions, fall planted crops such as cover
crops and the upcoming wheat crop need/will need some rain. The
cabbage crop is looking very good.
Al Wood – Pasquotank County Extension
Soybean harvest has started. Once promising yields have been
reduced by no rain. Most cattle producers are already feeding hay.
Any type of planting, whether grass or grain, is being postponed
because the ground is too hard.
Stephen Bishop – Cleveland SWCD
Very hot and dry. Cotton top crop bolls not developing and
maturing normally. Soybeans are dropping leaves more quickly
than they should due to temperature and lack of moisture. Some
are delaying sweet potato harvest hoping the potatoes will
develop better size.
Cathy Herring – Central Crops Research Station
Very dry conditions exist across the county. Very little measurable
rain since September 5/6. This has delayed any winter grain
planting. Harvest has proceeded without much interruption.
Tim Britton – Johnston County Extension
No rain since Hurricane Dorian three weeks ago. Soils have
gotten very dry. Field corn harvest is finished with growers
reporting average yields below 100 bushels. Soybean harvest
has started with good yields. Growers are having problems with
green stem in Group IV beans. Pastures are drying up and hay
supplies may be short going into the winter.
Mark Seitz – Pender County Extension
Defoliation of soybean and sweet potato by army worms reported
around the county. Small pockets of the county received rainfall
early Saturday morning but majority of county remains dry.
Concerns growing on impact dry conditions will have on late
maturing crops. Mac Malloy – Robeson County Extension
Dry weather continued this week. Soybean harvest continues, but
at a slower pace as growers wait for crop maturity.
Daniel Simpson – Pamlico County Extension
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