FARMERS MAKE HAY WHILE THE SUN SHINES

Dry weather allowed farmers to make excellent progress harvesting corn and tobacco and cutting hay. Corn yields varied wildly as some fields have received adequate rainfall while others have not. Soybean fields were browning and cotton bolls were beginning to crack open. Farmers in southern Middle Tennessee were still having trouble with sugarcane aphids and armyworms. Pasture conditions held steady.  Continue reading Tennessee NASS report at TN_09_06_16. The U.S. Crop Progress report can be read at CropProg-09-06-2016.