Nebraska ag stats

Crop and progress condition

For the week ending Nov. 25, there were 5.1 days suitable for fieldwork. 

Topsoil moisture supplies rated 1 percent very short, 4 short, 88 adequate, and 7 surplus. Subsoil moisture supplies rated 1 percent very short, 9 short, 85 adequate, and 5 surplus.

Field Crops Report: Corn harvested was 94 percent, near 96 last year and 97 for the five-year average.

Winter wheat condition rated 2 percent very poor, 7 poor, 25 fair, 46 good, and 20 excellent.

Sorghum harvested was 95 percent, equal to last year, and near 98 average.

Pasture and Range Report: Pasture and range conditions rated 2 percent very poor, 3 poor, 22 fair, 66 good, and 7 excellent.

Cattle on feed

Nebraska feedlots, with capacities of 1,000 or more head, contained 2.59 million cattle on feed on Nov. 1. This inventory was up 3 percent from last year.

Placements during October totaled 650,000 head, down 4 percent from 2017.

Fed cattle marketings for the month of October totaled 480,000 head, up 10 percent from last year.

Other disappearance during October totaled 10,000 head, down 5,000 head from last year.

Chicken and eggs

All layers in Nebraska during October 2018 totaled 8.39 million, up from 7.71 million the previous year.

Nebraska egg production during October totaled 214 million eggs, up from 194 million in 2017.

October egg production per 100 layers was 2,553 eggs, compared to 2,514 eggs in 2017.

USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service