Scattered rains last week helped Wisconsin’s crops a little, but many areas remain drought-stressed and need more rain.
USDA statistician Greg Bussler says the state’s topsoil moisture ratings are 14% very short, 43% short, and only 43% adequate moisture with no surplus moisture anywhere. Subsoil moistures are also deficient, with 25% very short, 42% short, and 33% adequate.
A central Wisconsin farmer told Brownfield he used an excavator to dig down 12 feet, and the soil was powder dry all the way down.
Scattered rains helped Wisconsin’s crops
