Adverse Weather Conditions in The U.S. Hamper Harvest
In North Dakota and Montana poor weather conditions have delayed harvesting with reference to the agency “Bloomberg “. Harvest in North Dakota still lags behind schedule, and recent rains have further aggravated the situation in some regions.
Farmers would have not prevented the sunny weather. Harvesting of spring wheat and durum have been slow. Today in total yield of spring wheat harvested only 27%, whereas normally this time last year already has been cleared 38% of the crop. As for durum, here things are even worse, with the fields cleared only 3% of the crop. Usually at this time of year average harvested is about 23% of the durum crop. Cleaning of oats and barley is also delayed. At this point in the state harvested about 39% of the crop of oats and 43% of the crop of barley.
Regarding the status of harvest in Montana should be noted that the rains have passed last week and lowering the temperature slowed the rate of harvest in the fields, but farmers are hoping that soon the weather will change and they are again able to work in their preferred mode. Harvesting of winter wheat in Montana completed 38%, which is lower compared to last year’s figure by 54%. And the average for five years for cleaning of winter wheat in the corresponding period was 80%. As the harvest of spring wheat, the field operations performed only at 7%. Last year the figure was 4%, while the average for 5 years the figure is 39%. Harvesting of barley is made of 12%. If the previous two states, the weather does not help farmers in harvesting, in South Dakota are all just the opposite. Harvesting is progressing. According to USDA, cleaning work performed by 70%, largely due to favorable weather conditions. Harvesting of spring wheat is completed by 81%.
