Corn Crop Suffering from dry weather

Wisconsin’s corn crop is still not maturing as fast as it should, due to relatively dry weather and cooler-than-normal temperatures.  Officials say the percentages of corn in the silk-and-dough stages are below the averages for the past five years.  It rained and hailed someplace in Wisconsin almost every day last week — but the showers were spotty, and 33-percent of the state’s farm fields are short to very short of moisture.  That’s ten-percent higher than a week ago.  Almost two-thirds of the fields have adequate moisture.  Only three-percent report a surplus.  Maturity levels for Wisconsin soybeans are ahead of a year ago.  Seventy-one percent of the beans are rated good-to-excellent.  Twenty-two percent of the state’s third hay crop is made, which is behind schedule by about six-percent.  Eighty-four percent of the hay is rated good-to-excellent.

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