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Crop report: Farmers cut hay first week of June
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DES MOINES — Iowa farmers had 4.7 days suitable for fieldwork during the week ending June 8, according to the USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service.
Field activities included cutting hay and spraying crops.
Topsoil moisture condition rated 4% very short, 21% short, 71% adequate and 4% surplus. Subsoil moisture condition rated 5% very short, 28% short, 64% adequate and 3% surplus.
Corn emerged reached 92%, four days ahead of last year’s pace but two days behind normal. Corn condition rated 85% good to excellent, up one percentage point from last week.
Ninety-seven percent of the expected soybean crop has been planted with 88% emerged. Soybean emergence was 10 days ahead of last year and four days ahead of normal. Soybean condition rated 80% good to excellent, down one percentage point from last week. E
mergence of the oat crop is nearly complete, with 53% headed and 10% turning color. Oat condition rated 84% good to excellent.
Seventy-seven percent of the State’s first cutting of alfalfa hay has been completed and there were scattered reports of farmers starting the second cutting. Hay condition rated 82% good to excellent. Pasture condition decreased slightly to 70% good to excellent.
Weather summary provided by Justin Glisan, Ph.D., State Climatologist, Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship
Several rounds of showers and thunderstorms brought widespread rainfall over the state with above-average amounts in Western Iowa; east-central Iowa reported 1/2- to 1-inch deficits.
Temperatures were near-normal to slightly cooler for much of Iowa through June’s first week with a statewide average temperature of near normal 66.3 degrees.
Weekly precipitation totals ranged from 0.13 inch at Waterloo Municipal Airport (Black Hawk County) to 3.86 inches in Sioux Center. The statewide weekly average precipitation was 1.26 inches; the normal is 1.17 inches.
Sioux City Airport (Woodbury County) reported the week’s high temperature of 94 degrees June 2, 15 degrees above normal. Several stations reported the week’s low temperature of 44 degrees June 4, which is 12 degrees below normal.
