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Warm weather welcomedIowa Warm, sunny weather dominated across the state during the week ending Sept. 21, helping row-crops progress toward maturity, according to the National Agricultural Statistics Service, Iowa Field Office, Sept. 22. A few alfalfa fields are expected to produce a fourth cutting due to the late-summer warmth and adequate soil moisture. Silage chopping and haying continued where earlier rainfall was light and resumed elsewhere as field conditions permitted. A few soybean fields were harvested and some corn end-rows were combined to get a moisture test. There were 6.2 days suitable for fieldwork, compared to 5.3 days last year at this time. Topsoil moisture is rated 4 percent very short, 15 percent short, 77 percent adequate, and 4 percent surplus across the state. Subsoil moisture is rated 5 percent very short, 17 percent short, 72 percent adequate, and 6 percent surplus. Corn at or beyond the dough stage advanced to 97 percent. Normally, all corn acreage is at or beyond the dough stage by this date. Eighty-five percent of the corn has reached the dent stage, 12 percentage points behind last year and the 5-year average. Corn mature advanced to 23 percent, 17 days later than last year and 2 weeks behind the 5-year average. Corn condition is rated 3 percent very poor, 9 percent poor, 27 percent fair, 48 percent good, and 13 percent excellent. Eighty-one percent of the soybeans are turning color, 1 week behind last year's 93 percent pace and 8 days behind the 5-year average of 94 percent. Soybeans dropping leaves advanced to 43 percent, 32 percentage points behind last year and 30 percentage points behind the 5-year average. Soybean condition is rated at 3 percent very poor, 9 percent poor, 30 percent fair, 47 percent good, and 11 percent excellent. Soybean lodging is reported at 84 percent none, 12 percent light, 3 percent moderate, and 1 percent heavy. Beans shattering is rated 94 percent none and 6 percent light. The third cutting of alfalfa progressed to 83 percent complete, 14 percentage points behind last year and the five-year average. All hay condition is rated 3 percent very poor, 11 percent poor, 33 percent fair, 40 percent good, and 13 percent excellent. Pasture and range condition is rated 3 percent very poor, 11 percent poor, 34 percent fair, 41 percent good, and 11 percent excellent. 9/29/08 Date: 9/23/08 Advertisement
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