A warm sunny week that was great for crop growth. Crops are growing well, with the heat and sun this week and the rain last week it has been an ideal week for crop growth. Corn is moving ahead quickly with some early fields in narrow rows now canopied over. Corn was still being planted up to this past week for silage to supplement the shortage of forage. Soybeans are responding well to the growing conditions and have advanced significantly in the past week with few problems.
Hay operations continue across the area.
Most first cut is now off and those who cut early will be taking second cut in the next ten days. Winter wheat has headed and is flowering, the weather conditions have been such that fusarium infection is not expected to be a big problem this year. Early spring cereals are heading, while later planted fields are just to the boot stage. Scattered thunderstorms travelled through the region early in the week. Although not wide spread, where it fell the total precipitation averaged about 20 mm.