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DAYS SUITABLE FOR FIELD WORK

This Week Last Week Last Year 5-Year Avg. 

VS ST A SS

5.7 4.0 6.5 5.9 
 

SOIL MOISTURE PERCENT
Topsoil Moisture 2 9 70 19
Subsoil Moisture 0 6 76 18
VS= Very Short ST = Short A = Adequate SS = Surplus

CROP CONDITION PERCENT

VP P F G EX

Barley 1 14 40 40 5

Corn 0 2 20 60 18 

Cotton 6 6 30 53 5

Hay 1 7 43 44 5

Oats 1 6 37 52 4

Pasture 2 9 42 42 5 

Peanut 0 2 16 70 12 
 Sorghum 1 2 29 61 7 

Tobacco: Flue Cured 0 1 19 69 11 

Wheat 11 19 32 32 6 

 Peach 14 9 50 22 5

Apple 10 10 42 37 1 

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: Upland 79 58 79 89  
Peanuts 71 51 76 87
Sorghum 50 40 n/a n/a
Soybeans 46 32 53 45
Sweet Potato 41 18 22 31
Tobacco: Flue Cured 95 86 95 96
Tobacco: Burley 52 37 56 69
PHENOLOGICAL:  
Corn % Emerged 93 88 92 96  
Soybean % Emerged 29 16 29 28  
Wheat % Headed 98 95 98 99
HARVESTED:
Hay 1st Cutting 66 37 70 70

COUNTY EXTENSION AGENT REPORTS

First cutting hay harvest is in full swing as producers have taken advantage of the warm, dry weather. Temperatures have been in the upper 70's and lower 80's with only a trace of precipitation in some areas of the county. Burley tobacco transplanting and corn planting is almost complete. 
Stanley Holloway - Yancey County Extension

Corn is showing stress due to denitrification caused by wet soils over the winter and more recent wet weather. Fields are too wet to apply sidedress N to help corn recover and farmers are still trying to get tobacco transplanted. Wheat is maturing, but the crop is suffering damage from extended wet weather and winds. Wheat has more ryegrass this year than in previous years. Tobacco is still being transplanted. Progress has been slowed by the weather and soil conditions. Some tillage was done early in the week before the weekend. A lot of hay was made early in the week prior to the weekend rainfall.
Paul Westfall - Granville County Extension

Rain and over cast conditions continued for most of the week.
John Ivey - Guilford County Extension

Crop planting has moved forward most of tobacco transplanting is done corn planting is done. Soybean planting has started. First cutting hay is moving forward at a rapid rate.
Gary Cross – Person County Extension 

Tobacco growers have completed transplanting in the fields. Strawberry picking season has come to an end with all of the excessive rains in the past two weeks. Livestock producers were busy this past week harvesting hays. Wheat, barley, and oats more than likely will have lower yields than expected when harvesting begins in late June.
Joey Knight - Caswell County Extension

Some areas are still saturated due to all of the rain. We are seeing lots of diseases pop up and production may decline because of this.
Danelle Cutting - Rowan County Extension

Tropical Storm Bonnie brought some needed moisture to the area over the weekend. Some fields have standing water as of 5/31. Corn crop is looking really good. Wet field conditions will further delay much needed field work and hay cutting.
Mac Malloy – Robeson County Extension 

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