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Dry weather helps harvet progress
Nebraska For the week ending Nov. 4, wind and warm temperatures dried soils allowing producers to make significant harvest progress, according to the National Agricultural Statistics Service, Nebraska Field Office, Nov. 5. The dry conditions allowed soybean harvest to catch up with last year and is now near average. Corn harvest remained ahead of last year and average. Other activities around the state included moving cattle to stalk fields, fall tillage, and applying fertilizer. Temperatures averaged 4 degrees above normal across the state. Temperatures ranged from highs in the low 80s in the southwest to lows in the upper teens in parts of the Central District. Precipitation was absent across the entire state. Corn harvested was 82 percent complete, 5 days ahead of last year's 70 percent and 2 days ahead of the 75 percent average. Soybean harvest was 94 percent complete, even with last year and near the 96 percent average. Sorghum harvest was 82 percent complete, ahead of last year's 73 percent and 79 percent average. Winter wheat conditions rated 0 percent very poor, 2 percent poor, 28 percent fair, 65 percent good, and 5 percent excellent, near last year's 72 percent good or excellent rating. Date: 11/8/07
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