Agricultural summary for Oct. 19

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The majority of crops statewide are now ready for harvest. Producers are eager to either start or continue harvest, but weather conditions are making timely harvest difficult to accomplish.

Farmers continue to contend with above average rainfall and well below average temperatures. This is keeping moisture levels elevated in fields. There were only 1.9 days suitable for fieldwork. Topsoil moisture was rated 59 percent adequate and 41 percent surplus.

Seventy-nine percent of the corn crop was reported as mature with 11 percent harvested. Corn was rated at 66 percent good to excellent, 25 percent fair, with 9 percent rated as poor or very poor. Thirteen percent of the soybean crop is reported as harvested with a five-year average of 79 percent. Soybeans were rated at 63 percent good to excellent, 27 percent fair, and 10 percent rated as poor or very poor.

Temperatures statewide averaged 43.7 degrees, 11.7 degrees below average. Precipitation averaged .93 inch, .27 inch above average.

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