USA: South Dakota’s barley harvest conditions

Soil moisture levels went down last week due to high temperatures and a lack of rain, according to the weekly crop report from the South Dakota Agricultural Statistics Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Associated Press communicated on August 8.

The crop report shows that 57 percent of the topsoil and 49 percent of the subsoil was either short or very short of moisture as of Sunday. Both percentages are higher than those in the previous week's report.

With all this, 59 % of the barley were harvested and sixty-eight percent is rated to be in either good or excellent condition.

12 August, 2005