Georgia weather and crops, 2005 July 3

ga-crop-weather
State Georgia Crop Weather
Week Ending Date July 3, 2005
Issue GA-CW2605 Agricultural Summary July 3, 2005
WHEN IT RAINS, IT POURS Frequent showers limited fieldwork activities, according to the Georgia Agricultural Statistics Service. In south Georgia, the rain has caused drowning of cotton, peanuts, tobacco, and vegetables. Wet weather conditions increased disease pressure on commercial vegetables. Soil moisture levels were rated 1 percent very short, 12 percent short, 68 percent adequate, and 19 percent surplus.
Heavy rains limited producers ability to apply fertilizer and spray fungicides to control insects and weeds. Many cotton and peanut fields have more weeds than usual due to reduce herbicide applications. In east central Georgia, the rains reduced the recent dry conditions. Tobacco producers continued to be concern about fields on the low land areas being flooded. Drier weather is needed to resume small grain and wheat harvesting.
County Extension Agents reported an average of 4.6 days suitable for fieldwork. Pastures benefitted from the recent rains. Other activities included harvesting hay and watermelons between showers, and the routine care of livestock and poultry.

Crop Progress Table
Corn, Silked Corn, Dough Corn, Dent Soybeans, Planted Soybeans, Emerged Soybeans, Blooming Sorghum, Planted Cotton, Squaring Cotton, Setting Bolls Wheat, Harvested for Grain Peaches, Harvested Peanuts, Blooming Peanuts, Pegging Tobacco, Harvested Watermelons, Harvested

Jul 3, 2005 86 36 6 95 89 16 85 64 17 94 51 73 38 3 32

Prev Week 76 20 2 90 81 9 78 48 6 84 42 56 22 0 11

Prev Year 92 63 21 99 97 22 89 81 24 99 56 81 43 7 66

5 Year Avg 91 65 26 96 89 20 91 74 27 98 59 79 45 11 65

Crop Condition Table

July 3, 2005

Crop

Very Poor

Corn

0

Soybeans

0

Sorghum

0

Cotton

0

Pasture

0

Apples

0

Hay

0

Peaches

0

Peanuts

0

Pecans

0

Poor Fair

--Percentage--

3

21

1

18

1

33

2

30

3

18

4

11

2

25

5

24

2

23

3

34

Good
63 70 62 55 65 71 60 71 61 52

Excellent
13 11
4 13 14 14 13
0 14 11

Tobacco

9

23

38

28

2

Watermelons

3

10

43

41

3

Pasture Condition Table - District* Level

July 3, 2005

Very Poor Poor Fair Good Excellent

--Percentage--

Dist 1(NW)

3

20

33

42

2

Dist 2(NC)

0

0

15

66

19

Dist 3(NE)

0

4

15

72

9

Dist 4(WC)

0

4

21

63

12

Dist 5(C)

0

5

17

65

13

Dist 6(EC)

0

0

9

76

15

Dist 7(SW)

0

2

19

66

13

Dist 8(SC)

0

1

25

59

15

Dist 9(SE)

0

0

7

75

18

*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

Jul 3, 2005

Prev Year

--Percentages--

Very Short

1

0

Short

12

6

Adequate

68

63

Surplus

19

31

5 Year Avg
7 19 59 15

Soil Moisture Table - District Level

July 3, 2005

Very Short Short Adequate

--Percentages--

Dist 1(NW)

0

29

64

Dist 1(NW)

0

30

65

Dist 2(NC)

0

4

85

Dist 3(NE)

0

0

81

Dist 4(WC)

2

22

71

Dist 5(C)

2

21

61

Dist 6(EC)

0

8

87

Dist 7(SW)

1

18

63

Dist 8(SC)

0

6

58

Dist 9(SE)

0

1

47

Surplus
7 5 11 19 5 16 5 18 36 52

Weather Information Table

GEORGIA WEATHER SUMMARY FOR THE WEEK ENDING MIDNIGHT, SUNDAY

JULY 3, 2005 1/

2005

Air Temperature

Precipitation Totals

Extreme Weekly Rain

30

60

Soil

Location

Max Min AvG Weekly Day Day

Day Season Temp

ALMA

92 72 79 3.00 5

5.15 12.62 27.92 82

ALPHARETTA

89 62 75 0.79 5

6.24 8.32 28.60 79

ARLINGTON

94 70 80 0.69 2

6.26 9.54 30.80 84

ATTAPULGUS

93 67 77 0.57 3

3.76 9.92 35.16 84

BLAIRSVILLE

89 64 73 1.38 5

7.67 10.47 28.37 74

BOWEN

93 70 78 1.73 6

5.32 9.37 32.06 83

BRUNSWICK

93 72 79 8.22 6 10.22 15.45 34.15 81

BYRON

93 69 77 1.38 4

5.60 9.00 26.37 80

CALHOUN

92 68 77 6.23 4

7.22 10.36 30.23 82

CAMILLA

94 68 80 2.02 4

5.77 8.98 30.24 85

CLARKS HILL

95 68 78 0.42 4

2.51 8.41 25.07 81

CORDELE

94 71 80 0.60 4

4.98 8.10 30.35 83

COVINGTON

92 68 77 2.18 5

3.09 6.45 21.03 80

DAHLONEGA

90 63 74 1.15 5

7.39 9.51 30.03 77

DALLAS

90 69 77 0.28 2

4.29 6.57 25.73 80

DAWSON

93 70 79 0.59 4

4.21 8.35 25.77 83

DEARING

94 68 79 1.90 4

5.12 11.59 27.17 80

DEMPSEY

91 67 77 0.69 2

3.19 6.91 26.03 79

DIXIE

93 70 79 2.35 6

6.64 10.53 32.04 84

DUBLIN

94 70 79 0.36 6

3.68 7.06 26.05 84

DULUTH

92 67 78 0.30 2

4.81 7.77 26.43 81

ELLIJAY

88 63 74 4.77 7 10.60 13.35 33.14 78

GAINESVILLE

92 67 77 0.61 4

5.04 8.00 26.44 81

GEORGETOWN

92 68 79 2.02 4

6.28 9.78 38.58 83

GRIFFIN

91 68 77 0.81 3

3.30 7.14 26.82 79

HOMERVILLE

93 73 79 2.78 6

7.19 13.12 29.21 83

JACKSONVILLE 93 68 78 0.68 5

4.16 9.66 27.37 82

JONESBORO

93 69 78 0.19 3

3.06 5.36 26.40 80

LAFAYETTE

91 66 77 1.61 4

6.13 11.51 23.40 79

MCRAE

94 68 78 1.32 6

3.37 5.91 23.56 84

MIDVILLE

94 70 79 0.11 3

2.95 7.21 24.58 84

NAHUNTA

94 65 75 2.40 5

5.83 10.63 27.28 82

NEWTON

93 70 80 2.94 4

6.37 10.80 34.67 85

PINE MOUNTAIN 92 67 77 0.14 4

3.88 8.67 29.92 78

PLAINS

92 69 78 1.36 5

5.43 9.91 30.68 82

ROME

93 69 77 2.65 5

3.82 6.15 18.12 79

SAVANNAH

96 75 82 2.41 4

7.94 14.02 28.42 83

SHELLMAN

94 71 79 0.88 4

4.44 7.62 28.23 87

SKIDAWAY

93 73 80 1.64 4

5.85 13.96 29.46 79

STATESBORO

93 62 75 4.17 6

4.93 10.49 28.45 84

TIFTON

90 69 78 2.30 6

7.13 9.38 26.51 80

TIGER

88 62 73 3.43 7 12.32 17.40 37.01 80

VALDOSTA

93 73 80 2.11 4

8.22 14.35 35.59 83

VIDALIA

94 70 79 0.55 6

2.33 4.67 16.83 83

WATKINSVILLE 87 57 68 2.00 6

8.65 13.01 35.41 81

WILLIAMSON

92 66 77 0.11 2

1.93 4.81 25.24 82

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 compiled and edited by the Georgia Agricultural Statistics Service. DISTRICT 1 - NORTHWEST No comments available.
DISTRICT 2 - NORTH CENTRAL Thunderstorms this week prevented most field work.
DISTRICT 3 - NORTHEAST No comments available.
DISTRICT 4 - WEST CENTRAL Scattered showers. Putting in hay and needing a rain.
DISTRICT 5 - CENTRAL Rain late in the week. Over 2 inches in some locations of the county. Rain

slowed wheat and hay harvests.
We have been drenched with rainfall and the disease problems have been popping up.
DISTRICT 6 - EAST CENTRAL Six days suitable for farm work. Rains the past week alleviated soil moisture concerns.
DISTRICT 7 - SOUTHWEST We received 0.38" of rainfall.
DISTRICT 8 - SOUTH CENTRAL Wet and rainy. Worried about drowned tobacco and diseases occurring in crops. Weed and insect control delayed as well as fungicide applications. Need some dry weather.
Harvesting watermelons, spraying herbicides on weeds, many cotton and peanut fields have more weeds than usual due to wet weather preventing herbicide applications.
Cloudy, rainy, and wet weather has hampered all farming operations: weed control, fertilizer application, fungicide spraying. Fields too wet to allow equipment to operate.
Excess rain causing problems in vegetables. Drowning tobacco, cotton, and peanuts. Delays in insect and weed sprays caused by wet fields.
Rain showers most every day delayed some field work; however, vegetable harvest continues.
DISTRICT 9 - SOUTHEAST Had 5 to 7 inches of rain during the week. Ground is wet.
Much needed rains came early last week.
Wet conditions limited field work. Many crops underwater. Rainfall totals from 1 to 8 inches in the last 7 days.
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