Tennessee crops: corn 2% planted, 12% apples blooming

Tennessee crops: corn 2% planted, 12% apples blooming

Warm temperatures and decent rainfall is helping pastures and fields green up in Tennessee. 

Corn is 2% planted.  Winter wheat is 38% jointed, 1% headed, and rated 72% good to excellent.

Pastures are 40% good to excellent.  Apples are 12% blooming.

Some counties in the western part of the state remain abnormally dry.  But, topsoil and subsoil moisture are 90 percent adequate to surplus.