AgWeb Blogs: Harvest Time 09 by: Kent Braathen

The wheat here [in Texas] is very poor, 10 bushels per acre will pretty much be the overall average. They were hurt by extreme drought over the winter and frost in the spring and now to much rain. The wheat looked very poor all across Oklahoma also, maybe more freeze damage than anything. As we move north to the Kansas Oklahoma border I expect things will be better, but there is talk of frost damage there also.

Homeowners do not trust green advice (From Wandsworth Guardian)

Just one in seven householders trust a builders when it comes to advice on green issues, but eight in 10 people would like to give energy efficiency advice that was respected by their customers.

The results come from polls commissioned from the Energy Saving Trust (EST) the UK’s leading organisation set up to help people fight climate change.

Cool temps slow crop development

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) Widespread showers provided a boost for South Dakota crops in the past week, but many fields need sunshine and warmer temperatures to stimulate development.

The weekly crop report from the Agricultural Statistics Service said crop growth has slowed because of cool temperatures that were 3 to 14 degrees below average last week.

Sioux Falls set records on consecutive days for the lowest daytime high, and Rapid City had a record low temperature of 35.

Approaching mid-June in Wisconsin: "No sign of summer in forecast"

Monday’s high in Madison was 68, 9 degrees below normal and 24 degrees below the record high of 92 for June 8, set in 1985.

Billings, MT - More record-setting cold

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAYS THAT A RECORD LOW MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE OF 47 DEGREES WAS SET AT THE BILLINGS AIRPORT YESTERDAY. THIS BREAKS THE OLD RECORD FOR A JUNE SEVENTH OF 48 SET IN 1974.

AND THERE WAS ANOTHER RECORD LOW HIGH TEMPERATURE SET ON SATURDAY. THE MERCURY ONLY REACHED 50 DEGREES ON JUNE SIXTH, BREAKING THE OLD RECORD OF 52 SET IN 1945.