Harvest progress continues, cotton 7% and soybeans 21% complete

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Harvest progress continues, cotton 7% and soybeans 21% complete

Corn, soybean, and cotton harvests continue across Tennessee.

Cotton harvest is 7 percent complete with 85 percent of bolls opening, the crop is rated 61 percent good to excellent. 

Soybeans are 21 percent harvested with 75 percent of the crop rated good to excellent.  Corn harvest is 60 percent complete.  Ninety-three percent of tobacco has been cut. 

Sixty-four percent of pastures are rated good to excellent and 11 percent of the winter wheat crop has been planted, with 5 percent emerged.

Eighty-seventy percent of Topsoil and 87 percent of Subsoil are called adequate to surplus.  Hay and roughage supplies are 89 percent adequate to surplus.