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Red chile harvest in full swing
New Mexico
There were 6.0 days suitable for fieldwork during the week ending Oct. 17, and farmers spent the week maintaining crops as harvest of corn, pumpkins and chile were well underway, according to the New Mexico Agricultural Statistics Service, Oct. 18.
Alfalfa conditions improved and were reported as 3 percent very poor, 4 percent poor, 22 percent fair, 55 percent good and 16 percent excellent. The 6th cutting was 68 percent complete and the 7th was 22 percent complete as harvest winds down.
Red chile harvest was in full swing with 28 percent harvested to date.
Cotton conditions improved with cotton bolls opening reported at 79 percent, and harvest just started.
Corn was reported in fair to excellent condition with 46 percent of the crop harvested.
Sorghum conditions were reported in fair to excellent condition. Sorghum harvest continued with 71 percent of the crop reported coloring, and 19 percent mature.
Peanut harvest was well underway with conditions reported in fair to excellent condition.
Wheat was in fair to excellent condition with 93 percent of the crop emerged.
Ranchers continued moving cattle from summer pastures and weaning calves. Cattle conditions were reported as 8 percent poor, 18 percent fair, 53 percent good and 21 percent excellent. Sheep conditions were at 2 percent very poor, 6 percent poor, 22 percent fair, 58 percent good and 12 percent excellent. Pasture conditions were reported at 5 percent very poor, 15 percent poor, 33 percent fair, 38 percent good, and 9 percent excellent.
Date: 10/21/04
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