Growers may choose to abandon fields with a high percentage of soft rot, rather than try to store and sort them. Typical visual indications of bulb or root rots in may crops include slow growth, yellow color, and susceptibility to foliar diseases. May 18 afternoon and evening provided four and more inches of moisture to most of our area. Some scattered spots had hail that caused limited damage. Other showers over the rest of the week and weekend have kept growers out of the fields in most areas.
Most fields have areas of water damage.
Cool and cloudy weather while fields have been saturated has minimized the negative impact of this excess moisture. It will be another week before we can do an accurate evaluation of this loss. Many growers will be back in the fields in the next several days. Commodities report Cabbage continues to make great progress with the cooler weather. Many fields will experience some loss from water damage.