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Arkansas harvest update: 97% rice and 79% soybeans harvested

Harvest continues its steady pace across Arkansas.  Rice harvest is 97% complete.

Soybeans harvest is 79% complete with 90% of the crop mature.  Cotton harvest is 71% complete and rated 74% good to excellent.  Peanuts are 91% dug and 48% harvested.

Thirty-four percent of the winter wheat crop is planted and 9% emerged.  Pasture and range conditions are 5% good, with 75% rated poor to very poor.

Topsoil moisture is called 86% short to very short and subsoil moisture was 84% short to very short.