Georgia weather and crops, 2004 August 8

Georgia Crop Weather
Week Ending Date August 8, 2004
RAIN BRINGS MINIMAL RELIEF Isolated thunderstorms occurred across the State late in the week, according to the Georgia Agricultural Statistic Services. The rain brought temporary relief to some fields and pastures. Pond and creek levels continued to drop due to increased irrigation. Farmers irrigated where possible.
The tobacco harvest continue. Growers were active in harvesting corn and cutting silage. Hay and pasture condition continued to decline due to the lake of moisture. Armyworms were reported in some pastures and hay fields.
County Extension Agents reported an average of 6.3.days suitable for fieldwork. Cattlemen continued feeding hay and selling cattle. Other activities included weed control and applying fertilizer.

Crop Progress Table

Aug 8,

2004

Corn, Dough

99

Corn, Dent

94

Corn, Mature

69

Corn, Harvested for Grain

10

Cotton, Setting Bolls

98

Cotton, Bolls Open

1

Sorghum, Harvested for Grain 5

Soybeans, Blooming

89

Soybeans, Setting Pods

70

Tobacco, Harvested

67

Watermelons, Harvested

98

Apples, Harvested

9

Peaches, Harvested

97

Prev Week
97 86 42
2 91
0 0 82 55 52 96 6 89

Prev Year
96 86 58
7 90
1 4 74 48 59 99 13 97

5 Year Avg 98 90 69 17 92 5 1 75 49 59 97 10 98

Crop Condition Table

August 8, 2004

Crop

Very Poor

Corn

2

Cotton

3

Hay

3

Peanuts

2

Sorghum

1

Soybeans

4

Apples

0

Pecans

10

Pasture

3

Poor Fair Good

--Percentage--

9

30

47

12

32

41

11

39

42

8

34

45

12

37

47

12

40

40

4

19

63

21

36

31

11

39

42

Excellent
12 12
5 11
3 4 14 2 5

Pasture Condition Table - District* Level

August 8, 2004

Very Poor Poor Fair Good

--Percentage--

Dist 1(NW)

2

8

53

32

Dist 2(NC)

0

3

33

61

Dist 3(NE)

2

10

15

64

Dist 4(WC)

1

7

39

46

Dist 5(C)

10

13

42

30

Dist 6(EC)

1

24

42

32

Dist 7(SW)

4

12

39

44

Dist 8(SC)

2

14

43

34

Dist 9(SE)

0

2

35

62

Excellent
5 3 9 7 5 1 1 7 1

*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

Aug 8, 2004 Prev Year

--Percentages--

Very Short

17

0

Short

43

3

Adequate

38

59

Surplus

2

38

5 Year Avg
15 32 43 10

Soil Moisture Table - District Level

August 8, 2004

Very Short Short Adequate

--Percentages--

Dist 1(NW)

0

44

51

Dist 2(NC)

3

32

64

Dist 3(NE)

2

16

72

Dist 4(WC)

11

51

38

Dist 5(C)

32

45

20

Dist 6(EC)

19

50

31

Dist 7(SW)

26

45

29

Dist 8(SC)

20

52

28

Dist 9(SE)

2

33

62

Surplus
5 1 10 0 3 0 0 0 3

Weather Information Table

GEORGIA WEATHER SUMMARY FOR THE WEEK ENDING MIDNIGHT, SUNDAY

AUGUST 8, 2004 1/

2004

Air Temperature

Precipitation Totals

Extreme Weekly Rain

30

60

Soil

Location

Max Min AvG Weekly Day Day

Day Season Temp

ALMA

96 64 79 0.60 1 2.50 10.43 22.75 84

ALPHARETTA

92 58 76 0.87 4 6.50 13.31 28.97 82

ARLINGTON

93 62 80 0.01 1 4.50 10.83 28.04 88

ATTAPULGUS

96 68 81 0.00 0 2.07

7.76 24.87 91

BLAIRSVILLE

89 50 69 1.00 2 2.64

8.92 28.66 79

BYRON

97 57 79 0.55 2 1.13

7.76 20.14 83

CAIRO

97 69 82 0.00 0 1.06

7.82 22.93 84

CALHOUN

93 54 74 0.70 1 5.04 14.17 30.91 78

CAMILLA

95 68 82 0.00 0 1.86

6.37 22.09 92

CORDELE

97 59 81 0.00 0 3.12 11.05 23.47 85

COVINGTON

93 60 77 0.40 2 3.26

9.25 24.11 86

DAHLONEGA

90 52 72 0.56 2 2.13 10.57 27.54 78

DALLAS

91 55 76 0.17 2 3.58

9.09 29.55 82

DAWSON

97 62 81 0.06 1 0.67

9.00 22.87 86

DEARING

97 57 78 0.23 4 0.65 11.00 26.81 83

DEMPSEY

95 60 77 1.39 2 3.23 14.33 28.14 83

DIXIE

96 68 81 0.00 0 3.07 13.43 30.53 90

DUBLIN

99 55 81 0.00 0 0.89

8.62 21.63 90

DULUTH

94 58 77 0.16 1 1.41

7.04 22.84 82

DUNWOODY

91 59 76 1.41 1 6.70 15.07 30.62 82

EATONTON

96 52 76 0.06 1 0.17

7.70 21.66 90

ELLIJAY

89 53 71 0.17 1 2.62 11.43 29.05 77

FORT VALLEY

96 59 80 0.02 1 0.07

4.97 15.89 88

GAINESVILLE

92 59 77 1.22 2 2.40

6.88 22.55 82

GEORGETOWN

94 61 79 0.00 0 1.38

9.45 22.78 87

GRIFFIN

94 56 77 1.19 3 3.66 12.80 27.02 80

HOMERVILLE

97 65 80 0.00 0 2.84 11.03 25.06 84

JACKSONVILLE 98 57 80 0.00 0 0.54

8.16 22.81 87

JONESBORO

94 62 78 0.36 2 1.47

6.77 19.77 83

LAFAYETTE

92 51 73 0.00 0 2.84

9.70 26.74 77

MIDVILLE

99 56 79 0.08 1 2.70

9.73 26.20 90

NAHUNTA

97 64 79 1.11 4 5.19 20.50 34.45 85

NEWTON

95 68 81 0.00 0 2.73

8.16 25.26 86

PINE MOUNTAIN 94 60 77 0.00 0 3.49 15.49 31.88 81

PLAINS

95 59 80 0.00 0 1.53 10.58 25.28 89

ROME

93 55 75 0.16 1 2.98 10.09 32.06 79

ROOPVILLE

94 57 77 0.11 1 2.72

8.52 24.00 83

SAVANNAH

97 57 78 0.36 3 3.31 17.97 30.69 83

SNEADS

94 74 82 0.16 1 2.13

8.70 26.51 87

STATESBORO

98 58 79 0.05 1 1.52

6.41 17.80 89

TIFTON

95 66 81 0.00 0 1.07

9.08 31.54 82

VALDOSTA

96 70 82 0.34 7 2.25

7.54 21.95 86

VIDALIA

96 60 79 0.31 1 3.00 11.11 24.39 86

WATKINSVILLE 95 54 76 0.02 1 2.14

7.42 23.58 82

WILLIAMSON

94 61 77 0.03 1 3.55 12.85 25.77 83

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 August 8, 2004
DISTRICT 1 - NORTHWEST No comments available.
DISTRICT 2 - NORTH CENTRAL Unusually cool weather. Hay crops are doing fairly well.
Mowing pastures. Routine care of livestock this week.
DISTRICT 3 - NORTHEAST No comments available.
DISTRICT 4 - WEST CENTRAL Hit and miss showers last week. Some dryland cotton started to wilt.
Very hot this week! Dry! No rainfall! Crops stressed from heat and lack of rainfall!
Putting in hay. Spraying weeds in forages. Selling cows, whole herds in a few cases due to good pricing. Need rain as soil moisture declined.
DISTRICT 5 - CENTRAL No rain, hot and dry! Pasture and hayfield conditions continue to decline. Some cattlemen having to start the supplemental feeding of hay again. We need rain really bad! Corn and grain sorghum conditions declining also. Pond and stream levels continue to drop due to the drought conditions we have been in for almost a month now.
Scattered showers have helped keep some hayfields and pastures in good shape. The majority are declining rapidly due to lack of rain.
It has been very hot and dry over the past week. We still haven't received

that much needed dose of rainfall and cooling temperatures. Hopefully, the forecasted fronts will bring about a change.
Dry weather conditions return. Need rainfall. Hay cut and baled this past week. Scattered showers mostly missed our county. Very little rainfall received. Chinch bugs have been a problem in some fields of millet and also in lawns in our area.
Need rain! Corn harvesting should begin soon.
Dry weather is upon us again. Several farmers are reporting fall armyworms attacking their pastures and hayfields.
Twenty-eight days without notable rainfall. We need rain!
Drought conditions hurt crop yields here in the county. Hay harvests have been poor. Pasture and grazing conditions worsened the last three to four weeks.
DISTRICT 6 - EAST CENTRAL Getting very dry. Cotton cutting out. Armyworms in hayfields. Corn not yielding as well as hoped.
Hot temperatures have moved soil moisture out and we are dry. Cotton and peanuts starting to wilt some. Forage production has come to halt need rain!
DISTRICT 7 - SOUTHWEST Hot and dry!
Good rain needed for dryland crops, hay fields and pastures.
We received 0.66" of rainfall.
Dry, dry, dry!
Dry! Heat and lack of rainfall have stressed all crops except corn which had already made. Corn drying down quickly in the field.
DISTRICT 8 - SOUTH CENTRAL Picking tobacco, spraying peanuts for disease prevention, spraying cotton for stink bugs. Irrigation of crops. Cutting and baling hay.
Lack of rain and hot. Crops suffering. Need a good rain to wet the entire county good and help promote afternoon showers. We have set a good crop so far, but need rainfall to finish them out to harvest.
Weather has been hot, dry, and windy. This has really hurt cotton and peanuts. Cotton is shedding blooms and bolls. It is wilting during the day. Peanuts are also wilting. Tobacco is not going to stay in the field to wait on harvest. Tobacco leaves are thin and burning up due to the heat. We need cooler temperatures and rainfall.
DISTRICT 9 - SOUTHEAST No comments available.
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