Posted: 07.06.2011

The phrase of "knee high by fourth of July" was on the lips of a lot of Wisconsin farmers over the weekend, and now the Wisconsin Ag Statistical Service says - the corn crop may, or may not, have made it.

As of Sunday, state officials say the state's corn crop is officially about 27 inches tall - a far cry from last year's measurement of 47 inches the same weekend.  Growers in northeast Wisconsin said they were still concerned about wet fields and the lack of height in their fields.
But confidence ratings remained.  Growers said 57 percent of their corn looked "good" - 24 percent "excellent'.

Soybeans were ranked nearly the same.  Statewide, farmers said the soybean crop was 63 percent "good" and 16 percent "excellent".  3 percent of the soybeans had begun blooming fourth of July weekend.

Specialty crops in the state are still in a precarious position though.  According to a Door county reporter, the wet weather's impacted the cherry pollination there.  Strawberry season's gotten mixed reactions across the state, and cranberries were in full bloom in Oneida county.

Now that heat units have started to mount - growers in southern Wisconsin are expressing some hope of a little light rainfall.  According to rainfall reports dialed into the Wisconsin Farm Report Tuesday morning - amounts varied from over an inch in the Luxemburg-Casco area, to only a tenth of an inch recorded in Campbellsport.
 

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