Wisconsin had 5.8 days suitable for fieldwork statewide for the week ending Sept. 22, according to the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service.
Above normal temperatures sped advancement in corn and soybean maturity. Mostly dry weather helped farmers make progress harvesting corn silage, cutting hay and seeding winter wheat. Other field activities included harvesting potatoes, spreading manure and fall tillage.
Harvest of soybeans and corn for grain was underway in portions of the state.
Topsoil moisture condition rated 6% very short, 35% short, 57% adequate and 2% surplus. Subsoil moisture condition rated 3% very short, 30% short, 66% adequate and 1% surplus.
Corn in the dough stage was nearly complete at 97%. Eighty-two percent of corn has reached the dent stage, three days behind last year but equal to the five-year average. Thirty-nine percent of the corn crop was mature.
Corn for silage harvest was 49% complete, one day ahead of last year and two days ahead of average. Corn condition was 64% good to excellent, up one percentage point from last week.
Soybeans coloring reached 88%. Sixty-five percent of soybeans were dropping leaves, seven days ahead of last year and five days ahead of average. The soybean harvest was 9% complete. Soybean condition was at 63% good to excellent, up one percentage point from last week.
Winter wheat planting was 34% complete with 18% emerged. The fourth cutting of alfalfa hay was 79% complete.
Potato harvest was 62% complete. Fall tillage was 6% complete. Pasture and range condition was rated 49% good to excellent, down five percentage points from last week.
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