This is the last report in the 1992 series of the Weekly Crop and Weather Roundup. Because of the lateness of the season, collection of data on the remaining crop activities will be continued for a few weeks and the results can be obtained from PDA. We thank those respondents who supplied information to make this release possible. The Weekly Crop and Weather Roundup will resume next spring. FAIR WEEK FOR FIELDWORK: This past week started cool and ended cool. A strong cold front swept through the state Thursday and Friday bringing all the weekly rain and the highest temperature. Temperature and precipitation were both above normal for the week. According to our survey, there were four days suit able for fieldwork. Activities included hauling manure; maintaining machinery; cutting and baling hay; mak ing com silage; fall plowing; harvesting soybeans, grain com, and fruit; planting wheat; fixing fences; and caring for livestock. SOIL MOISTURE: By week’s end, topsoil moisture was rated adequate by 71 percent of our respondents and surplus by 29 percent Fifty percent of our respondents in the northern region rated soil moisture as adequate, and SO percent rated it surplus. In the central region, 80 percent of our reporters rated soil moisture as adequate and 20 percent rated it surplus. In the southern region, 69 percent rated it adequate and 31 percent rated it surplus. CORN; Ninety-three percent of the com was mature compared to 100 percent last year and the five-year average of 100 percent. Forty-five percent of the com had been harvested by the end of the week. This com pares to 84 percent last year and the five-year average of 66 percent. The com d op for the state was rated 26 percent excellent, 51 percent good, 18 percent fair, 4 percent poor, and 1 percent very poor. Com silage harvest was virtually complete. SOYBEANS: Soybean harvest was 65 percent complete. Last year it was 81 percent complete. Soybean con- Jition at the end of the week was rated 5 percent very poor, 7 percent poor, 18 pcrcertt fair, 50 percent good, md 20 percent excellent 'HEAT; Wheat planting was essentially complete, the same as last year. ’OTATOES: Pennsylvania potato harvest was virtually complete by week’s end, the same as last year. ’ALL PLOWING: Ninety percent of fall plowing was complete. Last year it was 93 percent complete. RUIT; Apple and grape harvest was virtually complete by week’s end. A year ago they were complete. HAY AND PASTURE: By week’s end, the third cutting of alfalfa was virtually complete. The fourth cutting was 89 percent complete compared to 91 percent last year. The quality of hay made was rated good by 44 per cent of our reporters, fair by 44 percent, and poor by 12 percent. 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