Source: USDA'S NASS NC FIELD OFFICE, 6/8/15
DAYS SUITIBLE FOR FIELD WORK This Week Last Week Last Year 5-Year Avg.
4.3 6.6 6.3 5.3 SOIL MOISTURE PERCENT VS ST A SS Topsoil Moisture 2 20 64 14
Subsoil Moisture 1 15 72 12
VS= Very Short ST = Short A = Adequate SS = Surplus CROP PROGRESS PERCENT – WITH COMPARISONS This Week Last Week Last Year 5 Yr. Avg PLANTED: Cotton 92 83 99 98 Peanuts 91 81 99 98 Soybeans 61 55 65 58 Sweet Potatoes 44 25 49 46 Tobacco: Burley 73 60 81 84 PHENOLOGICAL: Corn % Emerged 95 93 99 99 Soybean % Emerged 45 33 54 46 HARVESTED: Barley 20 n/a n/a n/a Hay 1st cutting 82 73 87 83
Oats 30 n/a n/a n/a CROP CONDITION PERCENT
. VP P F G EX
Apples 0 2 37 58 3
Barley 0 3 24 69 4
Corn 1 5 20 57 17
Cotton 1 1 20 66 12
Hay 0 4 46 42 8
Oats 2 8 44 42 4
Pasture 3 18 51 35 3
Peaches 4 2 38 50 6
Peanuts 0 0 15 71 14
Soybeans 0 2 24 65 9
Sweet Potatoes 0 1 51 47 1
Tobacco: Flue Cured 0 0 17 70 13
Tobacco: Burley 0 0 42 54 4
Wheat 2 11 31 47 9
VP = Very Poor P = Poor F = Fair G = Good EX = Excellent COUNTY EXTENSION AGENT REPORTS Rains this week have all crops across the county looking very good at this point in the growing season. Peanut planting is complete and sweet potato transplanting and soybean planting continue to progress. Crews are hand hoeing tobacco and hand pulling palmer amaranth weed escapes. Have seen a lot more herbicide resistant marestail weeds across county. Farmers will need to make some changes in early burn-down strategies next year to take out the resistant marestail weed early, especially in cotton. Brian Parrish – Harnett County Extension
Excessive rainfall and saturated soil conditions continue to create slow, uneven growth for all crops. Fieldwork delayed. TSW virus beginning to show in tobacco but very low level incidence (1-2%).
Mike Carroll – Craven County Extension
Last week's rain really helped local crop conditions. Corn has made a major improvement. I know some fields further east had localized flooding but we were fortunate to receive flooding rainfall. Most growers reported 3.0-4.0 rainfall totals for the week. Wheat harvest should begin this week as conditions allow.
Roy Thagard – Greene County Extension
Showers during the week limit field activity. Some wheat has been harvest, with harvesting expected to pick up the coming week. Some areas are very wet while other are relatively dry. Irish potato harvest is expected to start the coming week if conditions dry out. Daniel Simpson - Pamlico County Extension
Good rains this week. Wet conditions are delaying planting of crops and harvest of hay. Jeff Vance – Mitchell County Ext Another week of scattered rain showers and thunderstorms limited field work in some areas of the county. Some areas of the county received heavy rainfall while other areas received very little. A number of hay producers held off harvesting first cutting hay due to the threat of rain. Corn planting and burley tobacco transplanting are essentially complete at this time.
Stanley Holloway – Yancey County Extension
Scattered rainfall this week has improved overall crop conditions.
Jan McGuinn - Rutherford County Extension
We had rain ranging from 1 inch to 5 inches in person County on June 3rd.Some wheat has lodged due to rain and wind which may affect quality. Hay cuttings in some area were less bales than last year. Tobacco is doing well some disease issues and insect issues. Corn is knee high or early whirl and looks very good. Soybeans are doing better due to the rain. Many soybean fields were planted to deep and struggled with emergence.
Gary Cross - Person County Extension
Still no general rains but some isolated showers have eased drought stress for some. Some farmers have commented on subsoil moisture being very short. Still time and optimism. Especially since rain still in forecast. Cotton stands improving, emergence of plants in several stages as periodic rains allowed emergence during several time periods. Some fields with cotton up only for a few days and other plants 6 inches tall.
Steve Gibson - Catawba County Extension
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