Crops

Dry conditions helped with the progress of row crop harvest with corn harvested at 19 percent, up from the 7 percent from the previous week. Corn harvested is well ahead of the five year average of 1 percent. Corn conditions saw slight improvement from the previous week at 18 percent very poor, 29 percent poor, 31 percent fair and 22 percent good to excellent. Corn in the mature stage was at 71 percent this week. Ninety-three percent of the corn silage has been cut. Soybean conditions also saw minor improvements with 14 percent very poor, 28 percent poor, 33 percent fair and 25 percent good to excellent. Soybeans dropping leaves was at 93 percent. Sixty-three percent of soybeans were rated mature compared to 34 percent the previous week. Soybeans harvested were at 15 percent, up from the 3 percent the previous week. Sorghum had 60 percent mature with 26 percent harvested. Ninety-three percent of the sorghum silage has been cut. Sunflowers were 98 percent in the ray flowers dry stage and 83 percent at the bracts yellow stage. Seventeen percent of sunflowers were rated mature, with 1 percent harvested.

Livestock

Cattle conditions were fairly constant with 66 percent good to excellent, 28 percent fair, and 6 percent poor. Sheep conditions were rated at 74 percent good to excellent condition, 20 percent fair and 6 percent poor. Slight improvements were seen in stock water supplies, feed supplies and range/pasture conditions. Stock water supplies were rated at 28 percent very short, 41 percent short and 31 percent adequate. Feed supplies were rated at 16 percent very short, 40 percent short and 44 percent adequate to surplus. Range and pasture conditions were rated at 37 percent very poor, 36 percent poor, 23 percent fair and 4 percent good.

Source: USDA NASS SD Field Office