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Kentucky harvest update: corn 33%, soybeans 11% harvested
Corn harvest has been underway for a couple of weeks for northwest Kentucky farmer Keith Tapp. “Everything that has been coming in, we’re happy with the yields,” he says. “But that’s what we got planted early before we were stopped by the weather.”
He tells Brownfield corn yields have been near to slightly above average. Statewide, corn is 33 percent harvested and 78 percent mature, with 70 percent rated good to excellent.
Tapp says he started harvesting his early beans today, but his late-planted beans need rain. “The sooner the better,” he says. “But then it will depend on the frost after the rain on what they will yield.”
Soybeans are 11 percent harvested state-wide and 41 percent dropping leaves, with 56 percent of the crop rated good to excellent.
Tobacco is 77 percent cut and 43 percent housed.
Drought has intensified in the state and only 34 percent of pasture are rated good to excellent, while 32 percent is rated poor to very poor.
Topsoil is 26 percent adequate to surplus and subsoil is 24 percent adequate to surplus.
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