Rain Followed by Hot and Humid Weather Helps Wisconsin Crops

Wednesday, July 7th, 2021 -- 8:05 AM

(Wisconsin Ag Connection) With 5.6 days suitable for fieldwork during the past week, farmers in the Badger State were thankful for another shot of hot and humid weather to get corn and soybeans on track after a cool and wet June.

According to the Wisconsin Ag Connection, the Wisconsin Ag Statistics Service noted in its weekly crop/weather report on Tuesday that temperatures averaged in the 70s and 80s.

Sections of the state received scattered showers, but soil moisture levels remain well below average in southern Wisconsin. Statewide topsoil moisture conditions were rated seven percent very short, 23 percent short, 66 percent adequate and four percent surplus.

The condition of the corn crop was rated 75 percent good to excellent, which is six percentage points better than last week. About a third of the soybean crop is now blooming, about a day behind the 2020 crop year, but six days ahead of the five-year average.

Some of the beans are already setting pods. All but 10 percent of the oats are headed and 33 percent are coloring. Winter wheat is 86 percent coloring, with farmers in some districts already combining the crop.

And the second cutting of alfalfa hay is reported 51 percent complete. That's five days ahead of last year and the average.

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