As reported by NASS on June 18, 2012
RAIN PROVIDED RELIEF IN SOME AREAS; CONTINUED DRY IN OTHERS
The weather pattern of scattered showers continued last week leaving 46 percent of Tennessee farmland short of soil moisture at week’s end. Crops continued to hold in mostly good condition. Forty-seven percent of the corn crop is in the critical pollination stage. Wheat harvest, soybean planting and tobacco transplanting are now about finished. Full-season soybeans are beginning to bloom and almost a third of the cotton crop is entering the squaring stage of development. As the hot Continue reading