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Kentucky crops conditions benefit from recent rains

Rain and slightly cooler temperatures have benefitted Kentucky’s crops.

Corn is rated 64 percent good to excellent, steady on the week.  Eighty-three percent of the crop is silking, 30 percent is in the dough stage and 10 percent has dented.  Soybeans improved to 64 percent good to excellent with 66 percent blooming and 42 percent setting pods.

Tobacco is rated 72 percent good to excellent with 44 percent blooming and 21 percent topped.

Pastures conditions improved to 56 good to excellent.  The hay crop is rated 74% good to excellent. Hay and forage supplies are 79% adequate to surplus.  Additional rainfall would greatly support late cuttings of hay and help producers avoid shortages this winter.

Topsoil moisture is 67 percent adequate to surplus and subsoil is 65 percent adequate to surplus.