Source: USDA'S NASS NC FIELD OFFICE, 7/6/15
DAYS SUITABLE FOR FIELD WORK This Week Last Week Last Year 5-Year Avg 5.5 5.9 5.8 5.4 SOIL MOISTURE PERCENT
VS ST A SS
Topsoil Moisture 4 25 63 8
Subsoil Moisture 3 26 64 7
VS= Very Short ST = Short A = Adequate SS = Surplus CROP CONDITION PERCENT VP P F G EX Apples 0 2 38 57 3
Corn 4 14 31 37 14 Cotton 1 4 23 62 10 Hay 1 10 44 39 6 Pasture 10 26 33 28 3 Peaches 4 3 42 44 7 Peanuts 0 1 21 68 10 Soybeans 1 9 27 50 13 Sweet Potatoes 0 2 47 44 7 Tobacco: Flue Cured 0 5 29 56 10 Tobacco: Burley 0 1 44 52 3 VP = Very Poor P = Poor F = Fair G = Good EX = Excelle CROP PROGRESS PERCENT – WITH COMPARISONS
This Week Last Week Last Year 5 Yr. Avg. PLANTED:
Soybeans 96 91 96 92
Sweet Potatoes 95 87 92 93
Tobacco: Burley 98 92 100 100
PHENOLOGICAL:
Corn Silking 80 59 78 88
Corn Dough 15 n/a 28 25
Cotton Squaring 69 58 66 70
Cotton Setting Bolls 11 n/a n/a n/a
Peanut Pegging 37 22 55 46
Soybean Emerged 89 78 90 87
Soybean Blooming 14 n/a 16 n/a
HARVESTED:
Barley 96 90 83 92
Hay 2nd cutting 24 18 46 41
Peaches 20 15 35 29
Oats 96 90 63 85
Wheat 98 91 93 93 nt
COUNTY EXTENSION AGENT REPORTS
NW Pender County received heavy rainfall and thunderstorms last week. Soil moisture in that part of the county is good. Corn pollination in drier parts of the county is hurting because of temperatures in the high 90s most of the week. Blueberry harvest is complete for most farmers due to prices dropping and hot weather. Overall growers are reporting a good to excellent blueberry harvest. Mark Seitz – Pender County Extension
Corn and beans are moving along but need a good shower. Most areas are starting to lack moisture. Potato harvest continues. Most tobacco is look good.
Daniel Simpson - Pamilco County Extension
Scattered rains fell across the county during the week. Mepiquat applications being made on some cotton fields while other growers are waiting for rain to make application. Soybean planting behind sage is nearing completion. Contact sucker control material being applied to tobacco. Peanut growers applying herbicides to remove escaped weeds in their fields. Severe storms in the area on 6/26/15. At this time do not know what crop damage may have resulted from that weather event.
Richard Rhodes - Bertie County Extension
Light spotty showers fell over parts of the county. Very dry soils and windy conditions quickly dried that moisture. Quite a few farmers are feeding hay that is in short supply for winter.
Carl Pless – Cabarrus County Extension
Recent rains have improved crop conditions for most crops except corn which had sustained damage from the hot dry conditions. Don Nicholson – Agronomist Region 7
Wheat harvest is pretty well finished with varied yields. Double cropped soybeans are emerging better than expected due to timely rainfall. Showers have helped all crops, but more rain is needed, especially in the southern part of the county. Tobacco is being topped, with good growth. Growers in the southern part of the county have been irrigating crops for over two weeks until they received rainfall this week. Hay is still being cut, but quality is pretty low. Paul Westfall - Granville County Extension
Up until this past week, Caswell County farms had been lacking moisture. This past weekend some areas of the county received up to 4 inches of rainfall. Stressed crops have turned around and are looking better than before. Sweet corn growers have been harvesting for the past two weeks. Home gardeners have been harvesting their vegetables. Tobacco growers are busy topping tobacco and are starting to see Black Shank Disease in some of the varieties because of the previous drought in the area. Pastures still look fairly well.
Joey Knight – Caswell County Extension
Rain is very spotty in the county. Some parts have had plenty and others, nothing.
Donna Teasley – Burke County Extension
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