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Show Utah crop weather summary Rain on the hay crop is the lead story again this week, according to the Utah Crop and Livestock Reporting Service. Reports from Cache County on the north to Washington on the south indicate in-dicate moderate to heavy losses to hay curing in the fields. Hay prices are running $10 per ton above last year, and could go higher .if the wet weather continues. Dairy quality hay is increasingly difficult to find, and concern for the winter is beginning to build. Grain harvest made slow progress in the wet weather. Winter wheat was 83 percent combined, with above average yields reported. Barley harvest reached reach-ed 57 percent by the week's end very little progress from the previous week. Barley yields have been about average, with fall seeded fields running runn-ing ahead of spring seeded. Over 90 percent of the spring wheat, and 45 percent of the oats were ripe and waiting for the fields to dry out. Oat hay harvest is also in progress between bet-ween storms. Peach picking moved along surprisingly surpris-ingly well. Some 39 percent of a large crop had been picked by the week's end. About half of the sweet corn, and two-thirds of the snap beans were out of the fields by Saturday. Tomato picking pick-ing was increasing. By the week's end, some 16 percent had been picked. |