State Georgia Crop Weather Week Ending Date June 20, 2004 SCATTERED SHOWERS Welcomed showers fell across the State last week, according to the Georgia Agricultural Statistics Service. Scattered showers brought moisture amounts of a trace to over 5 inches of rain. Moisture helped replenish ponds and streams and improved crop conditions. Areas of the State are still in need of more moisture for crops and pastures. County Extension Agents reported and average of 4.7 days suitable for fieldwork. Frequent showers caused problems for producers trying to control weeds. Fungicides and insecticides were applied to peanuts, cotton and tobacco. Cotton producers sprayed growth regulators and continued side-dressing cotton, as weather permitted. Tobacco plants were topped and Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus remained a problem for tobacco growers. Vegetable growers neared completion of squash harvest and started harvesting sweet corn and bell peppers. Wheat and hay harvest continued. Rains allowed some producers to replant soybeans and helped recover dry land corn. Other activities included berry harvest, preparation for millet planting, and the routine care of livestock and poultry. Crop Progress Table Corn, Silked Corn, Dough Corn, Dent Cotton, Squaring Cotton, Setting Bolls Peanuts, Blooming Peanuts, Pegging Sorghum, Planted Soybeans, Planted Soybeans, Emerged Soybeans, Blooming Tobacco, Harvested Wheat, Harvested for Grain Watermelons, Harvested Peaches, Harvested Jun 20, 2004 76 33 3 51 4 54 16 77 93 85 7 2 93 23 39 Prev Week 69 18 1 31 1 36 8 68 87 75 3 1 83 9 29 Prev Year 71 29 3 49 6 48 12 84 85 70 3 3 78 21 35 5 Year Avg 74 38 10 46 9 50 19 84 83 70 5 4 89 24 37 Crop Condition Table June 20, 2004 Crop Very Poor Corn 2 Cotton 1 Hay 2 Peanuts 0 Sorghum 0 Soybeans 1 Tobacco 5 Watermelons 1 Apples 0 Peaches 0 Pecans 2 Pasture 3 Poor Fair Good --Percentage-- 13 30 46 4 28 53 16 41 38 1 29 56 10 39 44 5 41 51 21 42 29 6 40 44 4 24 56 18 24 52 9 44 42 15 35 39 Excellent 9 14 3 14 7 2 3 9 16 6 3 8 Pasture Condition Table - District* Level June 20, 2004 Very Poor Poor Fair Good Excellent --Percentage-- Dist 1(NW) 4 12 52 32 0 Dist 2(NC) 0 5 25 68 2 Dist 3(NE) 6 39 33 22 0 Dist 4(WC) 1 11 38 44 6 Dist 5(C) 1 24 50 25 0 Dist 6(EC) 2 15 57 24 2 Dist 7(SW) 0 5 28 61 6 Dist 8(SC) 1 12 34 44 9 Dist 9(SE) 0 13 35 46 6 *A list of the counties in each of the nine Georgia Agricultural Statistics Districts is available at http://www.nass.usda.gov/ga/ctyests/districts.pdf. Soil Moisture Table Jun 20, 2004 Prev Year --Percentages-- Very Short 5 0 Short 21 2 Adequate 66 56 Surplus 8 42 5 Year Avg 16 24 47 13 Soil Moisture Table - District Level June 20, 2004 Very Short Short Adequate --Percentages-- Dist 1(NW) 6 43 51 Dist 2(NC) 1 34 61 Dist 3(NE) 2 69 29 Dist 4(WC) 13 15 71 Dist 5(C) 12 28 58 Dist 6(EC) 1 27 67 Dist 7(SW) 0 7 71 Dist 8(SC) 2 14 78 Dist 9(SE) 4 5 78 Surplus 0 4 0 1 2 5 22 6 13 Weather Information Table GEORGIA WEATHER SUMMARY FOR THE WEEK ENDING MIDNIGHT, SUNDAY JUNE 20, 2004 1/ 2004 Air Temperature Precipitation Totals Extreme Weekly Rain 30 60 Soil Location Max Min AvG Weekly Day Day Day Season Temp ALMA 94 71 79 2.04 6 4.52 6.76 14.67 81 ALPHARETTA 91 69 77 1.19 6 3.04 6.73 17.52 80 ARLINGTON 94 70 79 1.87 6 4.73 9.91 19.08 83 ATTAPULGUS 94 70 79 1.44 5 6.06 8.42 19.11 83 BLAIRSVILLE 87 64 74 1.34 2 4.15 9.34 21.09 77 BRUNSWICK 94 71 80 1.67 3 2.94 7.46 16.92 82 BYRON 95 70 78 3.24 4 3.75 6.32 15.72 80 CAIRO 95 71 79 1.79 5 5.33 7.71 17.54 80 CALHOUN 92 68 78 3.25 5 4.46 9.17 19.99 82 CAMILLA 94 71 80 1.66 4 3.20 7.71 17.38 85 CORDELE 94 71 80 2.73 5 4.56 9.87 15.15 83 COVINGTON 92 69 78 2.15 6 4.07 6.83 17.03 82 DAHLONEGA 88 66 75 1.12 5 3.37 5.83 18.41 77 DALLAS 89 68 77 1.22 4 3.33 7.33 21.86 81 DAWSON 94 70 79 4.11 5 6.95 10.04 17.98 82 DEARING 96 71 80 1.28 6 6.29 10.25 19.42 80 DEMPSEY 91 68 77 2.75 4 4.00 7.28 17.07 80 DIXIE 94 70 80 1.08 3 4.03 8.54 18.21 84 DUBLIN 95 70 79 3.92 5 5.55 9.11 17.28 84 DULUTH 92 69 77 2.05 6 5.69 7.11 17.98 79 DUNWOODY 90 68 77 2.95 5 3.92 7.44 18.52 81 EATONTON 92 68 78 1.79 4 4.83 6.98 15.99 83 ELLIJAY 88 65 75 1.93 5 3.33 8.34 19.81 79 FORT VALLEY 94 71 78 2.13 4 3.07 5.83 13.51 82 GAINESVILLE 90 70 78 0.41 5 1.02 5.96 16.11 78 GEORGETOWN 94 70 79 4.73 5 6.63 9.99 18.06 84 GRIFFIN 91 69 77 2.54 6 3.44 7.55 16.91 79 HOMERVILLE 96 69 79 3.21 4 6.81 9.97 19.14 82 JACKSONVILLE 94 70 78 3.98 5 4.78 7.45 18.63 82 JONESBORO 92 69 78 2.72 6 3.82 5.86 15.73 80 LAFAYETTE 93 67 77 0.22 4 2.26 4.29 17.26 74 MIDVILLE 93 71 79 2.82 3 4.03 7.66 20.10 84 NAHUNTA 96 70 79 5.78 4 9.06 11.86 22.60 83 NEWTON 93 70 79 1.55 5 3.68 6.97 18.71 85 PINE MOUNTAIN 92 68 77 4.29 6 6.01 10.27 20.88 79 PLAINS 93 70 78 2.86 5 4.59 8.08 17.61 82 ROME 91 69 77 1.80 6 3.51 9.44 23.77 80 ROOPVILLE 92 64 76 1.86 5 2.77 5.22 17.34 80 SAVANNAH 97 69 78 8.01 5 9.83 12.65 21.67 80 SNEADS 93 74 80 1.02 5 2.66 7.68 18.84 86 STATESBORO 95 70 79 1.86 4 2.48 5.03 13.31 85 TIFTON 93 71 80 0.96 2 5.49 10.02 23.43 79 VALDOSTA 95 71 80 1.06 3 3.51 7.16 15.88 86 VIDALIA 94 70 79 3.48 3 5.15 7.88 16.82 83 WATKINSVILLE 92 69 79 0.14 4 3.64 6.98 16.77 82 WILLIAMSON 91 68 76 3.07 6 4.58 8.11 15.99 81 1/ Weather data supplied by Georgia Automated Environmental Monitoring Network (AEMN) and the office of the State Climatologist, University of Georgia. For detailed Georgia weather data visit the AEMN homepage, www.georgiaweather.net. NA - not available. District Highlights These comments are written by the Georgia County Extension Agents, and have been complied and edited by the Georgia Agricultural Statistics Service. DISTRICT COMMENTS June 20, 2004 DISTRICT 1 - NORTHWEST Rains were very scattered. Most were around but not here in the county. DISTRICT 2 - NORTH CENTRAL Heavy rains in scattered thunderstorms this week. Many hay fields cut during the latter portion of the week. DISTRICT 3 - NORTHEAST No comments available. DISTRICT 4 - WEST CENTRAL Afternoon showers continue. Variable amounts of rainfall, Monday thru Thursday, from 1.5 inches at the least to 6 inches in other areas of the county. Very wet in places. Weed control is suffering because of good growing conditions and inability to get in the fields to spray. Same for leafspot in peanuts. Pastures and hay crop have really improved. Scattered storms provided some relief to dry conditions; pastures & hayfields somehow are holding on but hay crop is extremely weak. Prepping for the millet crop planting & baling & feeding hay along with routine care of livestock. DISTRICT 5 - CENTRAL Some scattered showers this week. Some areas of the county got around 0.5 inches and some areas got none. Pasture and hayfield conditions improved slightly due to rains last week and some hay producers getting their first cutting of hay this year. Corn and grain sorghum conditions improved slightly also. Wheat harvest nearing completion with good test weights and straw production. Hay feeding continues to livestock due to poor pasture conditions. Extremely hot temperatures and high humidity this week! We were fortunate to have received rainfall on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. We still are in a deficit. Good beneficial rainfall received this week - pastures and hay fields looking much better at this time - weeds increasing in many pastures in our area some pastures being sprayed for weeds after rainfall chances diminish. Thanks for the rain! Received much needed rain - over a half an inch on both Friday and Saturday (June 11 and 12) and over 2 inches Monday (June 14). DISTRICT 6 - EAST CENTRAL Good rains over most of county, some soybean replanting due to heavy rain. Some dryland corn recovery. A few plantbugs in cotton. Putting out cotton growth, regulators, sidedressing cotton, and spraying fungicide on peanuts. Some rain. DISTRICT 7 - SOUTHWEST Rain! We received 2.36" of rainfall. Wheat harvest 95% complete. Variable rainfall amounts from 1.5 inches to 5.5 inches, pastures and hayfields have improved, weeds growing well, difficult to get in fields to spray. DISTRICT 8 - SOUTH CENTRAL Raining every day. Applying insecticides and fungicides to peanuts and tobacco. Applying herbicides to peanuts and cotton. Picking bell pepper and sweet corn. Squash about over. Topping tobacco plants. TSWV is getting worst in tobacco and I am afraid it will be tough on peanuts as well as we progress thru the season. Blueberries and blackberries are good. Scattered rain has slowed down spraying growth regulator on cotton, weed control in cotton and peanuts. Crops look good due to the moisture. DISTRICT 9 - SOUTHEAST Much needed rain fell across the county and crop conditions are improving. Contact Information David S. Abbe, Director Georgia Agricultural Statistics Phone: 706-546-2236 E-mail: nass-ga@nass.usda.gov Website: http://www.nass.usda.gov/ga