Sweet corn monitoring traps indicate heavy flights of corn borer moths. Second cutting hay crops look well. Early cut stands were slow to initiate regrowth in many winter weakened stands. Many older stands have been rotated out of production one or two years earlier than expected this spring. Good seed fill and crop maturation is on schedule.
Winter wheat is variable.
Significant portions of fields suffered losses due to the heavy March and April rains. Spring grains - Early planted oats is maturing properly, but there are some problems with cereal leaf beetle. May. Corn - Only about 10 percent of the corn was planted by May 27. Serious planting didn't begin until May 30 and continued through June 8. Significantly more acreage than normal was planted using no-till methods.