Few Days Available for Harvest
Published: Friday, November 3, 2023
The following is from the Michigan Field Office of USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service for the week ending Oct. 29.
Field crop harvest made limited progress as producers worked around the weather during another wet week.
There were 2.7 days suitable for fieldwork.
The southeast region of the Lower Peninsula reported the season's first freeze on Oct. 23.
Corn for grain and soybean moisture content remained above their respective five-year averages. Corn for grain moisture content at harvest was reported at 27%, up 6 percentage points from the five-year average.
Soybean moisture content was reported at 17%, up 2 points from the five-year average.
Corn for silage and dry bean harvests were nearly wrapped up.
Winter wheat planting continued to be slowed by delays in the soybean and corn for grain harvests.
Other activities last week included tending livestock, hauling grain and planting cover crops.
The crop progress schedule (last week, previous week, 2022 and five-year average) showed: corn mature, 91, 86, 96, 94; corn harvested for grain, 30, 24, 41, 41; corn harvested for silage, 97, 94, 100, 97; soybeans harvested, 55, 43, 75, 65; winter wheat planted, 69, 556, 93, 85; winter wheat emerged, 58, 44, 72, 63; dry edible beans harvested, 97, 93, 98, 93; alfalfa hay, fourth cutting, 95, 90, 94, NA; sugarbeets harvested, 32, 22, 50, 57.
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