Weekly Crop Progress and Condition Report

DES MOINES, Iowa—Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig commented at the moment on the Iowa Crop Progress and Situation Report launched by the USDA Nationwide Agricultural Statistics Service. The report is launched weekly April by means of November.

“A blast of chilly air late final week dropped temperatures effectively under regular as the primary flurries of the season flew over almost absolutely harvested corn and soybean fields,” mentioned Secretary Naig. “Farmers are centered on ending up fall subject work earlier than frost settles in as forecasts present colder situations hanging round by means of the top of November.”

The weekly report can be obtainable on the USDA’s web site at nass.usda.gov.

Crop Report

Harvest was largely full with 5.6 days appropriate for fieldwork through the week ending November 13, 2022, in keeping with the USDA, Nationwide Agricultural Statistics Service. Fieldwork included wrapping up fall tillage, making use of fertilizer, baling stalks, and hauling and spreading manure.

Topsoil moisture situation rated 18 p.c very quick, 35 p.c quick, 45 p.c enough and a couple of p.c surplus. Subsoil moisture situation rated 25 p.c very quick, 38 p.c quick, 36 p.c enough and 1 p.c surplus.

Harvest of the corn for grain crop reached 95 p.c full, eight days forward of final yr and 12 days forward of the typical. Moisture content material of subject corn being harvested for grain was 16 p.c. Farmers in Northeast and South Central Iowa nonetheless have over 10 p.c of their corn for grain crop remaining to be harvested.

Livestock have been largely doing effectively, though the abrupt change to colder temperatures brought on some stress.

Climate Abstract

Supplied by Justin Glisan, Ph.D., State Climatologist, Iowa Division of Agriculture and Land Stewardship

Iowans skilled a drastic shift from unseasonable heat to winter-like situations in the direction of the top of the reporting interval; the statewide common temperature was 39.2 levels, 1.6 levels above regular. Widespread rainfall and a few snow flurries additionally introduced further moisture to soil profiles over a lot of the state. Jap and northwestern Iowa reported above-average totals nearing an inch whereas the center of the state noticed departures nearing 0.50 inch.

Spotty cloud cowl was reported throughout parts of Iowa by means of Sunday (sixth) afternoon as a weak low stress middle propagated alongside the Iowa-Missouri border. Daytime temperatures held within the 50s as southwesterly winds shifted to extra of a westerly course. In a single day skies have been clear with morning lows starting from the low 20s north to mid 30s south. Monday (seventh) was chilly with afternoon highs remaining within the low 40s over northern Iowa whereas southern Iowa registered temperatures within the low 50s. Clouds steadily elevated by means of the late evening hours as an easterly wind endured, although steadily turning to the southeast as a disturbance approached northwestern Iowa. Morning lows on Tuesday (eighth) have been close to common as clouds prevented extra in a single day cooling; mid to higher 40s have been noticed in western Iowa whereas higher 30s have been current in jap Iowa the place skies have been nonetheless clear. Showers and some thunderstorms shaped over northwestern Iowa all through the day as gusty southeasterly winds developed statewide. Useful rain totals have been noticed throughout a number of northwestern counties with two stations in Le Mars (Plymouth County) measuring from 1.00 inch to 1.20 inches; totals tailed off farther southeast with almost 30 stations dumping out a minimum of 0.25 inch. Thick cloud cowl held on in a single day as a warmed airmass pushed into the Midwest together with larger relative humidity. Morning lows reported at 7:00 am on Wednesday (ninth) in western Iowa have been within the higher 50s with some low 60s forward of a chilly entrance approaching Iowa; these readings have been as much as 30 levels hotter than regular with a statewide common low of 43 levels, 13 levels above regular. Low clouds and muggy situations endured into the afternoon and night hours.

Southerly winds elevated forward of the chilly entrance sweeping throughout Iowa on Thursday (tenth). Showers and thunderstorms shaped in jap Iowa the place daytime highs reached into the higher 70s. Showers expanded over Iowa’s southeastern quarter although the remainder of day and in a single day into Friday (eleventh). Greater than 20 stations noticed a minimum of an inch with normal totals of between 0.20 to 0.60 inch at most stations reporting rainfall; Dubuque (Dubuque County) measured 1.06 inches whereas a gauge close to Lisbon (Linn County) noticed 1.49 inches. Chilly Canadian air filtered in behind the chilly entrance with afternoon highs on Saturday (twelfth) hovering within the 20s to low 30s; the statewide common excessive was 28 levels, 20 levels under regular. Snow flurries fell over a lot of Iowa by means of the day as northwesterly winds and thick stratus clouds endured. Winds turned variable in a single day into Sunday (thirteenth) with temperatures solely dropping by 5 to 10 levels with peeks of clear skies southwest. Mild snow accumulations have been reported at a handful of stations with 0.1 inch at Orange Metropolis (Sioux County) to 1.0 inch in Waterloo (Black Hawk County).

Weekly precipitation totals ranged from no accumulation at many western Iowa stations to 1.72 inches close to Wellman (Washington County). The statewide weekly common precipitation was 0.31 inch whereas the traditional is 0.47 inch. A number of jap Iowa stations reported the week’s excessive temperature of 78 levels on the ninth, on common 26 levels above regular. Forest Metropolis (Winnebago County) reported the week’s low temperature of 11 levels on the twelfth, 15 levels under regular. 4-inch soil temperatures have been within the mid 30s west to low 40s east as of Sunday.

(contributed press launch, IDALS)