Most crops have made very good growth this week with adequate moisture and warm temperatures. Commodities report Processing tomatoes are all in the ground now. Early planted fields are turning yellow with flowers. Mid-season varieties have the twin rows filled with vines. Market tomatoes are on the third string as fruits have developed in early plantings two inches or more in size.
Vines look very good with no diseases seen.
Potatoes planted early have now gone beyond bloom. Tubers are developing well with two inch or larger found in the hills. Leafhoppers are now easily found with ten or more per 20 sweeps in several smaller fields that were not treated with systemics at planting. Sweet corn continues to develop well with tassels now showing in earlier planted fields. There are a lot of corn borer larva present.