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Spring Breeding of Kentucky Cattle Underway
Kentucky Ag Connection - 05/21/2019
Kentucky experienced near normal temperatures and below normal rainfall over the past week. Precipitation for the week totaled 0.40 inches, 0.73 inches below normal. Temperatures averaged 65 degrees for the week, near normal. Topsoil moisture was rated
3 percent short, 84 percent adequate and 13 percent surplus. Subsoil moisture was rated 2 percent short, 86 percent adequate, and 12 percent surplus. Days suitable for fieldwork averaged 4.9 out of a possible seven.
Primary activities this week included planting corn and soybeans, transplanting tobacco, cutting hay, and spraying wheat. With continued dry weather, planting progress is expected to pick up. Producers began side-dressing corn with nitrogen. Some replanting
of corn has occurred in fields where water had pooled.
Spring breeding of cattle is underway.
Tobacco transplant supplies were reported as 1 percent very short, 3 percent short, 92 percent adequate, and 4 percent surplus.
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