Source: USDA'S NASS NC FIELD OFFICE, 10/3/16
SOIL MOISTURE PERCENT VS ST A SS Topsoil Moisture 3 15 61 21
Subsoil Moisture 3 21 56 20
VS= Very Short ST = Short A = Adequate SS = Surplus
DAYS SUITABLE FOR FIELD WORK
This Week Last Week Last Year 5-Year Avg.
3.8 4.3 1.1 n/a
CROP CONDITION PERCENT VP P F G EX Cotton 2 9 33 50 6 Pasture 8 19 39 30 4 Peanut 0 4 20 64 12 Soybean 3 8 29 48 12 Sorghum 2 5 33 55 5 Sweet Potato 0 6 27 24 5 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
PHENOLOGICAL:
Cotton – Bolls Opening 85 76 86 84
Soybean – Dropping Leaves 52 44 51 38
HARVESTED:
Apple 74 69 69 69
Corn for Grain 89 87 84 84
Hay 3rd Cutting 71 69 63 58
Peanuts 13 n/a n/a 13
Sorghum for Grain 50 40 n/a n/a
Sweet Potato 34 27 26 37
Tobacco: Flue Cured 90 86 79 87
Tobacco: Burley 64 56 60 81 COUNTY EXTENSION AGENT REPORTS
Rains have slowed field operations for sweet potato, tobacco, peanut and soybean harvest. Groups IV and V soybeans are damaging due to wet, dreary conditions. Dry weather is needed to complete harvesting of these crops.
Don Nicholson – Agronomist Region 7
Tobacco growers are busy trying to get their crop in before the mid-month frost date. Grain growers are worried about these recent rains and the proposed upcoming storm Matthew that could bring additional rains that could delay soybean and corn grain harvesting as well as trying to plant small grains during the month of October. Strawberry growers have just finished up planting on plastic culture. Home gardens are pretty much finished for the season. Pastures are starting to green back up after the 4 plus inches of rainfall this past week.
Joey Knight - Caswell County Extension
Rain this week has helped with water levels, but rain is still needed. Temperatures have started to fall into the 40's at night and upper 60's for highs. Julia Houck – Ashe-Alleghany County Extension
Areas of Rutherford County received close to 3 inches of rain this week and some have not had rain since July. Cooler temperatures are helping pastures and the rain if you happen to be located in an area of the county that is receiving it.
Janice Nicholson – Rutherford County Extension
Torrential rains, 10 plus inches in some parts of the county over a 2 day period. Kenny Bailey – Cumberland County Ext
Showers during the week prevented most field activity. Soybeans are ready for harvest, but conditions remain wet. Suspect some growers will push hard this week to harvest soybeans before the hurricane arrives over the weekend. We need a drier weather pattern. Daniel Simpson – Pamlico County Extension
Robeson received a wide range of significant rainfall across the county. The most rainfall was in the northern part of the county which caused some flash flooding in low areas. More early maturity soybean were planted this year due to seed supply. Concerns are growing about the ability of timely harvest of early soybeans, cotton, sweet potatoes, peanuts, and what little corn, sorghum and tobacco is left in the field. Wet field conditions are also impacting timely planting of rapeseed. Additional moisture from Hurricane Matthew could make these problems worse.
Mac Malloy – Robeson County Extension
Very Wet last week. Some areas got up to 6 inches of rain. Most producers have adequate hay supplies to get them through the winter. We have had a good year for hay production.
Jonathan Wall – Randolph County Extension
Some rain this week has pastures looking a little better, but conditions are quickly drying out again. A few soybean fields have already been cut, with mixed yields reported. It seems like most fields are going to average to below-average because of dry weather. Stephen Bishop – Cleveland SWCD
Received less than 1" of rain this week.
Jeff Vance – Mitchell County Extension
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