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Cool weather with heavy precip across stateWyoming Sugar beet harvest ahead of average during the week ending Oct. 11, according to the National Agricultural Statistics Service, Wyoming Field Office, Oct. 13. For the week ending Oct. 11 the state received above normal precipitation and below normal temperatures. Dry bean and sugar beet harvests stopped due to heavy wet snow. High temperatures ranged from low 40s to mid 60s. Low temperatures ranged from 3 to 22 degrees. Topsoil moisture was at 86 percent adequate or better, up 11 points from last year and up 35 points from the average. There were 2.5 days suitable for field work last week. Winter wheat was at 99 percent emerged; 2 points above 2008 and 5 points above the average. Ninety-one percent of the dry beans had been windrowed, and 79 percent combined; 10 points above 2008 and 5 points above the 5-year average. Ninety-one percent of corn was in the dent stage, 84 percent was mature, and 2 percent was harvested, down 1 point from last year and 6 percent below the average. Harvesting corn for silage was at 95 percent, up 1 point from 2008 but 1 point below the average. Twenty-four percent of sugar beets have been harvested, 11 points above 2008 and 6 points above the average. Seventy-five percent of alfalfa has been cut for the third time, up 15 points from last year and up 1 point from the average. Stock water supplies were at 87 percent adequate or better; this is 1 point higher than 2008 and 31 points higher than the average. Range and pasture conditions were at 49 percent good or better, up 7 points from last year and up 19 points from the 5-year average.
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