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Scattered showers provide a boost to some Tennessee crops

Spotty rains in parts of Tennessee helped late-season crop development.  Corn silage harvest is underway in the middle part of the state, haymaking has been slowed across the state due to rain shower. 

Seventy-two percent of soybeans are rated good to excellent with 82 percent setting pods and 2 percent dropping leaves.  Cotton is rated 67 percent good to excellent with 95 percent setting bolls and 2 percent opening.  Corn is rated 72 percent good to excellent with 62 percent dented and 6 percent mature.  Eighty-nine percent of tobacco is topped with 57 percent rated good to excellent.

Sixty-one percent of pastures are rated good to excellent.

Seventy-three percent of Topsoil and seventy percent of Subsoil are called adequate to surplus.