Timely rains across Tennessee were greatly beneficial to the state’s row crops.

Seventy-six

percent of soybeans are called good to excellent with 82 percent of the crop

emerged and 8 percent blooming.  Cotton

is rated 62 percent good to excellent with 29 percent of the crop squaring and

3 percent setting bolls.  Corn is rated

72 percent good to excellent with 17 percent silking. 

Wheat harvest is 88 percent complete. 

Sixty-four percent of pastures are rated good to excellent and the first cutting of hay is 94 percent complete.

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