Posted: 07.27.2010

If you've been thinking that Wisconsin's corn crop looks amazingly tall - you're right.  But many Wisconsin crop reporters say that tall corn needs to stay ahead of standing water in many areas.

The latest update from the Wisconsin Ag Statistical Service shows the average corn height state wide is 79 inches tall. 75 percent of the corn is already "silked" - and amazingly enough - 6 percent of the corn is actually in the dough stage. 

Soybean growers are going to have to monitor white mold on plants because of the moisture around the state and the escalating heat.  Growers say that 64 percent of the crop has bloomed - and 20 percent has already set pods!  That figure's 4 percent points ahead of normal.

Small grains have struggled in Wisconsin.  Not in growing - but in being harvested.  Reporters said that yields on winter wheat were averaging about 70 bushel to the acre, but the grooves and ruts left in farm fields by heavy equipment takes its own toll.

Door county is still harvesting cherries, and in the central sands area - pea harvest has basically wrapped up with green bean harvesting soon to follow.  Next crop is likely sweet corn for vegetable processors.

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