Crop Progress and Condition for the Week Ending October 16, 2011

General: According to the National Agriculture Statistics Service’s Georgia Field Office, there were 4.0 days suitable for fieldwork for the week ending Sunday, October 16, 2011. Statewide topsoil moisture was rated at 7% very short, 25% short, 63% adequate, and 5% surplus. Subsoil moisture for the State was 16% very short, 42% short, 41% adequate, and 1% surplus. Precipitation estimates for the week in Georgia ranged from no rain up to 7 inches. The week’s average temperature ranged from the upper 50s to the mid 70s.

County Extension Comments

“What little rain was received just kept us from backing up much further.”
--Wade Hutcheson, Spalding County, District 40

“Farmers harvested cotton, peanuts and some late corn fields this week. The last few hay fields have now been cut. Both the yield and the quality of the hay harvest has been disappointing. A lot of winter grazing fields were planted this week.”
--Mike Hayes, Wheeler County, District 50

“Wet damp and rainy. Very little field work was done. Rain helped late cotton. Hurt open cotton a little but really hurt dug and undug peanuts on the ground or in soil. Rain varied from 2" to 9"west to east of county. Hoping for some sunny and dry weather for picking crops.”
--Mark Von Waldner, Atkinson County, District 80

“Recent rain and cloudy weather has held up peanut and cotton harvest for the last two weeks. Bermuda grass maggot has really damaged our last cutting of hay.”
--Mark Frye, Wayne County, District 90

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