Kentucky Harvest Shows Mixed Results
A rain-soaked spring planting season – combined with a scorching summer – have cut into some autumn crop yields in Kentucky. But corn and soybean crops have shown resilience as farmers wind down their harvest.
A crop-reporting service says corn harvesting was 80 percent complete heading into this week and 55 percent of the crop was rated good or excellent.
Farmers have more work ahead in cutting soybeans. The harvest was 40 percent finished, well behind last year’s pace. Fifty-eight percent of the crop is in good or excellent shape.
In the western Kentucky grain belt, yields vary from bin-busting amounts to much skimpier levels.
Caldwell County agricultural extension agent Shane Bogle says the local corn crop endured the slow start and hot summer with help from summer rains.
