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Below average temps limit spring field workColorado Most of Colorado received below average amounts of precipitation during the week ending March 23, except the Front Range, which was above average for the week, according to the National Agricultural Statistics Service, Colorado Field Office, March 24. Overall, snowpack is down 3 percent from the previous week to 123 percent of the state average. Temperatures across the state were below average for this time of year. Farmers were allowed 4.1 days in the field for spring operations. Winter wheat was 7 percent pastured last week, with the crop rated in mostly fair to good condition. Spring barley was 8 percent seeded by week's end, which is behind the 5-year average of 13 percent. Dry onions were 10 percent planted and spring wheat was 5 percent seeded. Sugarbeets were 1 percent planted by week's end. Pasture and range feed conditions were rated mostly fair across the state. The above average levels of snowpack in the mountains are keeping ranchers hopeful for conditions to improve during the growing season. Forty-eight percent of cows have calved since Jan. 1 while 40 percent of the ewes have lambed during the same time frame. Death losses for cattle and sheep were both rated slightly above average. Stored feed supplies are rated at average for this time of year. 3/31/08 Date: 3/26/08 Advertisement
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