Hot, dry conditions continued during the week with several areas impacted by locally heavy precipitation for the week ending Aug. 16, according to the National Agricultural Statistics Service, Colorado Field Office, Aug. 17.
Field accessibility was generally ideal, allowing producers to maintain a moderate pace in the harvest of mature crops.
Heat units have accelerated crop maturity rapidly, although dry pockets continue to emerge as a result of recent high temperatures.
Crop conditions either held steady or showed slight declines.
Stored feed supplies were rated 1 percent very short, 2 percent short, 81 percent adequate, and 16 percent surplus.
Sheep death loss was rated 63 percent average and 37 percent light. Cattle death loss was rated 1 percent heavy, 71 percent average, and 28 percent light.
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