Scattered rains and cool temperatures along the Coastal Plain continue to inhibit final harvest activities. Only a few more days of nice weather are necessary to wind up harvest activities. Days suitable for field work averaged 4.0, down from the last weeks estimate of 4.5, restricting field work progress. Aside from the limited harvest of late season cotton and soybeans, farmers planting wheat continue to make modest progress. Other activities included sorghum harvest, tending livestock, repairing equipment, burley tobacco marketing and final Christmas tree cutting and marketing.
Pasture conditions continue to decline, and many cattlemen have begun feeding hay.
The next Weather and Crop report will be released on January 2, 2001. Raleigh-Durham Oxford Roanoke Rapids Rocky Mount Siler City Whiteville Williamston Wilmington 0.59 0.75 0.38 0.67 0.35 0.26 0.49 0.10 0.27 0.