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Released: May 10, 1999 -- 3:00 p.m. For Week Ending May 9, 1999 Volume 48 Issue 9

GENERAL
Wide-spread, heavy rain halted fieldwork across the state, according to the USDA's South Dakota Agricultural Statistics Service. Many producers had only a couple days of fieldwork before seeding and fieldwork was stopped by uncooperative weather throughout the week. There were many reports of water standing in low areas. Producers are in need of several warm, dry days in order to get tractors back into fields. Corn seeding progress was 20 percent complete as of week's end. Statewide, there were 1.6 days suitable for fieldwork. .

Based on information from county extension educators, farm service agency county directors and other reporters around the state.

SOIL MOISTURE
After a week of heavy rains across the state, soil moisture is reported to be surplus in the eastern half of the state, while the western area of the state is still reporting adequate topsoil and subsoil moisture conditions. 



   
   SOIL MOISTURE CONDITION COMPARISON - MAY 7 

               TOPSOIL         SUBSOIL
          This  Last Last  This  Last  Last
RATING    Week  Week Year  Week  Week  Year

                       Percent
Very 
 Short      0     0    4     0     0     0
Short       1     3   17     0     1     7
Adeq.      43    65   69    53    67    75
Surplus    56    32   10    47    32    18


CROPS
Before heavy rains halted fieldwork last week, corn planting continued across the state, with 20 percent seeded, up 13 points from last week. Spring wheat and oat seeding increased 9 and 17 points, respectively, from last week, with 82 percent of spring wheat planted and 71 percent of oats complete. Barley seeding progressed to 69 percent seeded. The cool, windy and wet weather has slowed small grain development and delayed seeding of row crops. Spring wheat is reported at 56 percent emerged, 25 points ahead of last week, yet 14 points behind last year's average. Producers have reported barley progress at 36 percent emerged, 28 points behind last year's average. Oats are reported at 38 percent emerged, compared to last week's 21 percent. There were several reports from the south-central counties of leaf spotting in winter wheat. 




        CROP AND LIVESTOCK CONDITIONS - MAY 9

ITEM       V POOR   POOR   FAIR   GOOD   EXCEL

                          Percent
Winter Wheat   0       1     13      58     28
Winter Rye     0       0     30      55     15
Alfalfa        0       1     12      57     30
Barley         0       0     11      74     15
Oats           0       1     10      69     20
Spring Wheat   0       0     15      66     19
Cattle         0       0      9      66     25
Sheep          0       0      7      64     29
Range & 
   Pasture     0       1     12      60     27


LIVESTOCK AND FORAGE
LIVESTOCK AND FORAGE: Spring rains slightly hindered the movement of cattle to pasture, with 45 percent moved. Calving is reported at 87 percent complete and lambing at 86 percent complete. Calving and lambing were at 90 percent and 88 percent, respectively, last year. Cattle and sheep are reported to be in good to excellent condition. Feed supplies are reported to be 96 percent adequate to surplus, while stock water supplies are 99 percent adequate to surplus, with several reports of stock dams overflowing. Alfalfa hay conditions are 87 percent good to excellent, 12 percent fair, and 1 percent rated poor. There are several reports of alfalfa weevils and cutworms in alfalfa fields.

WEATHER
Temperatures varied across the state last week, with many sites recording below average temperatures. Pierre reported the highest temperature at 83 degrees. The lowest temperature was 26 degrees in Custer and Porcupine. Rain fell across the state much of the week, with the most precipitation, 4.38 inches, in Chamberlain. 


             


	        CROP PROGRESS - MAY 9
                                                                                 
                This   Last   Last   5-Yr.
ITEM            Week   Week   Year    Ave
  
  
                         Percent
Barley  
 seeded          69     51     93     49   
 emerged         36     16     64     26   
Spring wheat
 seeded          82     73     96     60   
 emerged         56     31     70     30   
Oats       
 seeded          71     54     94     55  
 emerged         38     21     63     31   

Corn    
 planted         20      7     53     23
 emerged          0      0      9      2
Flaxseed
 seeded          24      9     67     19
 emerged         11      3     41     10
Sorghum    
 seeded           0      0     23      5  
Soybeans
 planted          2      0     12      3
 emerged          0      0      6      0
Winter wheat
 boot   	 50     50     38      9 
Winter rye  
 boot            19      8     35      9   
 
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              AVERAGE SOIL TEMPERATURES
          WEEK ENDING MAY 9  (4-Inch Depth) 

LOCATION       TEMP           LOCATION    TEMP

Beresford     51.7          Gettysburg    53.2
Brookings     52.3          Nisland       50.2
Caputa        52.3          Pierre        52.9
Chamberlain   54.2          Redfield      53.3
Cottonwood    50.7          Watertown     54.5


		Air TEMP      PRECIPITATION		
                   
               				       JAN   APR GDD BASE 
      STATION AVG DFN  HI  LO  WKLY TTL  TTL   DFN   DFN TOT DFN
                                               
NW   Buffalo   49  -4  64  32  0.85 4.38 3.16  1.17  1.13  39 -29

NC   Aberdeen  56   3  76  39  1.74 5.35 3.56  0.59  0.98 109   9
     Leola     54   1  75  35  1.49 6.38 4.36  1.27  1.40  82  -7
     Mobridge  52  -2  76  35  3.93 5.78 5.28  1.07  2.47  81  -8
     Roscoe    52  -2  75  36  2.63 7.65 5.73  2.73  2.73  56 -32

NE   Britton   56   2  74  36  2.83 6.71 4.07  2.49  1.56 116  11
     Sisseton  55   0  74  34  1.77 6.36 3.61  0.86  0.54  97 -14
     Watertown 53   0  75  30  2.59 6.35 3.72  1.50  1.16  94   0
     Webster   55   2  71  31  0.94 4.04 2.49 -1.47 -0.49 104  15

WC   Faith     52  -3  71  35  0.35 3.65 2.75 -0.89  0.02  63 -31
     Lead      43  -5  58  32  0.58 9.34 5.04 -1.06 -0.13  10 -24
     Philip    53  -3  78  31  0.30 4.08 3.02  0.00  0.58  88 -24
     Rapid Cit 51  -2  70  31  0.12 3.61 2.51 -0.93 -0.09  59 -12

C    Chamberla 51  -6  75  38  4.38 9.82 8.05  5.22  5.22  70 -63
     Highmore  52  -3  77  38  2.25 5.63 4.63  0.49  1.56  76 -27
     Huron     55   1  75  40  1.93 6.00 5.17  0.42  2.34 132  27
     Pierre    54  -2  83  39  3.08 7.50 6.40  2.65  3.59 127  15

EC   Brookings 55   4  71  33  1.52 7.77 5.75  3.00  2.96  82   6
     Madison   55   2  71  37  1.49 7.10 6.34  0.83  3.18  89  -4
     Mitchell  55  -2  75  41  1.44 *****8.25  4.74  5.00 108 -21
     Sioux Fal 55   1  72  34  1.37 7.83 6.03  1.71  2.70 101  -9

SW   Custer    44  -4  60  26  0.19 3.71 2.91 -0.84  0.24   5 -23
     Hot Sprin 50  -4  70  29  0.17 5.99 4.41  2.13  2.04  54 -57
     Porcupine 52  -2  74  26  0.66 6.07 4.32  2.20  1.93  70 -14

SC   Bonesteel 53  -2  75  39  1.87 8.65 4.83  2.01  0.95  78 -20
     Mission   51  -3  76  34  2.13 7.86 6.39  3.02  3.57  61 -17
     Murdo     51  -4  78  40  2.43 8.26 5.17  3.09  2.26  75 -18
     Winner    53  -5  77  39  2.36 8.15 6.59  1.57  2.84  96 -61

SE   Armour    56  -2  75  40  1.50 8.16 6.30  2.13  3.15 136 -13
     Vermillio 56  -3  76  39  0.75 7.25 6.23  1.31  2.92 134 -48
     Yankton   55  -2  75  40  1.20 8.28 6.80  2.78  3.81 111 -23

National Weather Service, provided by AWIS, Inc.
bar chart showing crop progress compared to the last 10 years

                                     
 
 
 
South Dakota county map showing topsoil moisture South Dakota county map showing subsoil moisture

Topsoil image in 'TIF' format for publishers
Subsoil image in 'TIF' format for publishers
 

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