The weather has been the biggest challenge for Tennessee farmers this spring.
David Nichols tells Brownfield it’s been a roller coaster. “The temperatures will get really warm, and then we get a front that comes in, and we get really cold,” he says. “Because of the cooldowns that we’ve experienced, everybody’s been kind of slow getting started. but this past week had a pretty good bit of progress.”
Corn is 7% planted and soybeans are 4% planted.