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Black Shank Reported in Kentucky Tobacco Fields
Kentucky Ag Connection - 07/17/2018
Kentucky experienced above normal temperatures and below normal rainfall over the past week. Precipitation for the week totaled 0.41 inches, 0.58 inches below normal. Temperatures averaged 78 degrees for the week, 1 degree above normal. Topsoil
moisture was rated 3 percent very short, 32 percent short, 60 percent adequate and 5 percent surplus. Subsoil moisture was rated 2 percent very short, 24 percent short, 70 percent adequate, and 4 percent surplus. Days suitable for fieldwork averaged 6.4 out
of a possible seven.
Primary activities this week included spraying soybeans, applying fungicides to corn, baling hay, and scouting fields. The high temperatures and limited rainfall have continued to show effects of stress on crops and pastures. Scattered showers during the week
varied the impacts of moisture stress throughout the state. The dry weather did allow farmers to catch up on fieldwork. Depleted pastures had some cattle producers feeding hay and supplementing.
Farmers continue to monitor tobacco fields for disease; some incidences of black shank have been reported.
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