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Planting beginning in Tennessee between wet pockets

Heavy rains have brought up to 10 inches to Tennessee farm fields and some flooding.

The first weekly crop report from USDA of the season says topsoil moisture supplies have a 57 percent surplus, and subsoil moisture supplies have a 39 percent surplus.

The rains have helped pastures green up with 46 percent rated good to excellent.

Winter wheat is rated 68 percent good to excellent with 38 percent of the crop headed.

Tennessee farmers have planted three percent of the corn crop while two percent of soybeans have been planted.

USDA says a few eastern counties still had abnormally dry conditions as of April 1.