Weekly Weather and Crop Bulletin, Volum 73,Edició 13

120 above normal acreage AFRICA AGRICULTURAL WEATHER FACILITY ahead of normal Alfalfa areas Average temperatures barley BASED ON PRELIMINARY Blacklands bloom BOTSWANA Calving Cold Bay Corn planting Cotton planting covered winter grains crop damage Days suitable DEPARTURE FROM NORMAL excellent F/NRM Feed supplies fields fieldwork 6.0 grain growth harvest continued heading stage INCH increased JOINT AGRICULTURAL WEATHER Juneau lambing land preparation Lettuce Light showers Lihue Livestock Main activities moisture adequate NOAA/USDA JOINT AGRICULTURAL NORMAL SINCE JAN North China Plain oats onion pastures peaches planting corn plowing poor potatoes Precipitation averaged PRELIMINARY REPORTS rainfall REPORTS AND SATELLITE rice Rio Grande Valley scattered Seedbed preparation short Soil moisture Sorghum SOUTH AFRICA southeast southern soybean Spring subsoil moisture SUGARCANE suitable for fieldwork surplus Temperatures averaged Texas tobacco plant beds Topsoil Topsoil moisture TOTAL PRECIPITATION transplanting UKRAINE underway Upper Coast vegetables Veracruz warm weather WEATHER FACILITY Based Winter wheat