Kentucky crops: corn and soybeans 5% planted

Kentucky crops: corn and soybeans 5% planted

Planting progress continues in Kentucky despite above-normal rainfall throughout the state.

Corn and soybeans are 5 percent planted.  Tobacco transplants are 48 percent seeded. 

Winter wheat is 4 percent headed, with 89 percent of the crop rated good to excellent.  Pastures are rated 64 percent good to excellent. While limited, there have been frost advisories as cold weather has moved in, and damage will be assessed in the coming weeks.  

Thirty-three percent of apples are blooming.