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Kentucky crops: corn and soybeans rated 70% good to excellent

Temperatures are on the rise, but crop conditions are holding steady due to timely rains in some areas. 

Corn is rated 70% good to excellent with 36% in the dough stage and 10% in dent.  Soybeans are rated 70% good to excellent with 57% blooming and 39% setting pods.  Tobacco set is rated 70% good to excellent with 49% blooming and 24% topped. 

Pastures are rated 66% good to excellent.  Hay is rated 67% good to excellent – but there are still concerns about low yields.  Hay supply is rated 68% adequate to surplus. 

Topsoil is 78% and subsoil is 80% adequate to surplus.