UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS SERVICE
Tennessee Crop Weather
Tennessee Field Office • PO Box 41505 • Nashville, TN 37204 • (615) 781-5300 or (615) 891-0903 • www.nass.usda.gov
Issued Monday 3:00 PM; May 14, 2018 For the Week Ending May 13, 2018
WARM AND DRY CONDITIONS PUT PRODUCERS TO WORK
Tennessee farmers made significant progress during 6.0 days suitable for field work. The state experienced
warm and dry conditions for most of the week. This allowed producers to make considerable headway with all
plantings, fungicide applications, and hay cutting. Many report improved conditions for most crops and cattle
due to the favorable weather. Some are concerned with hay yields due to the previously low temperatures, but
hopeful for the condition of future cuttings. Topsoil moisture was 1 percent very short, 8 percent short, 84
percent adequate, and 7 percent surplus. Subsoil moisture was 3 percent short, 67 percent adequate, and 30
percent surplus.
CROP PROGRESS CONDITION
5
This Last Very
Crop 2017 Year Item Poor Fair Good Excellent
Week Week Poor
Avg.
Percent Percent
Corn - Planted 86 65 87 84 Pasture 1 7 33 48 11
Corn – Emerged 61 22 72 62 Winter Wheat 1 4 34 46 15
Cotton – Planted 49 10 31 29
Soybeans – Planted 26 7 17 19
Soybeans – Emerged 4 NA 3 3
Winter Wheat – Headed 90 67 97 86
County Agent Comments
The farmers in Fayette County have been busy planting cotton and beans. We have finished planting corn.
Other activities include spraying hayfields and cutting hay. Jeff Via, Fayette County
Re-planting poor stands, and completing first planting of corn as well as planting soybeans has been a major
focus this week. Producers are also completing fungicide applications to wheat. Warmer temperatures and dry
conditions are helping to improve the wheat crop conditions. Forage producers are taking advantage of the
good drying conditions to harvest hay. Jeff Lannom, Weakley County
A good dry week had farmers very busy with haymaking and corn planting. Strawberry harvest is underway and
cool season vegetables harvest is in full swing. Calvin C. Bryant III, Lawrence County
Corn planting pretty much done. Soybean planting starting to progress. Cattle and Pastures look good.
James Harlan, Wayne County
We have replanted some corn this week while trying to finish up the corn and planting beans. We have been
cutting small grains for hay and some farmers have started cutting grass. Our yields are going to be low
because of the cool weather. Hopefully we'll keep getting rain so the next cuttings will be better.
Larry Moorehead, Moore County
Davidson County is currently 6 inches over the average rainfall amount for the year. High temperatures will
deplete the topsoil moisture levels, but subsoil moisture levels are very good.
David Cook, Davidson County
Good week for field work. Additional corn planted and some soybeans. Cutting wheat for hay. Cool season
grasses seems to have headed short this year and producers are concerned that spring cutting will be short.
Cattle look good with lots of calves being taken to market.
A. Ruth Correll, Wilson County
A dry week has allowed corn and soybean planting to edge closer to completion. Quite a bit of hay has been cut
this week as well. Rain in the forecast may complicate hay harvest, but aid newly planted crops.
Matthew Deist, Marion County
Lots of hay cut and baled. Lots of corn planted. No significant rain this week. Some soybeans planted this week.
John Goddard, Loudon County
Pasture doing very well with warmer conditions. Chris Ramsey, Sullivan County
We are starting to get too dry. If we do not get some significant rain in the next 10 days we are going to be in
drought. Neal Denton, Knox County
TEMPERATURES AND PRECIPITATION
For week ending: May 13, 2018 (with comparisons)
TEMPERATURE PRECIPITATION
LOCATION Week Ending Current Current Departure Current Departure
Rain
May 13, 2018 Week Since From Normal Since From Normal
Days
HI LO AVG DFN 05/13/2018 January 1 January 1 April 1 April 1
West
Ames_Plantation 78 56 68 1 0.00 0 33.75 12.12 7.40 -0.42
Bolivar_Wtr_Wks 88 54 72 6 0.00 0 33.20 11.90 9.55 1.84
Brownsville 89 54 75 7 0.00 0 29.25 8.34 6.62 -0.95
Covington_3SW 88 56 73 6 0.30 1 34.09 13.43 6.43 -1.09
Dresden 87 56 74 8 0.00 0 24.96 4.77 5.95 -1.32
Dyersburg_Muni 91 57 76 9 0.01 1 11.65 -7.91 3.94 -2.93
Henderson_4W 86 50 71 6 0.00 0 38.57 15.71 7.88 -0.29
Huntingdon 88 52 74 8 0.00 0 21.80 1.61 5.80 -1.23
Jackson_Exp_Stn 88 53 74 6 0.00 0 33.37 13.10 8.24 1.20
Lexington 87 51 72 6 0.00 0 33.07 12.86 7.95 0.84
Memphis_WFO 90 55 75 7 0.00 0 33.55 11.97 9.24 1.24
Milan_Exp_Stn 88 51 72 6 0.00 0 32.82 12.50 7.57 0.06
Paris 90 50 73 9 0.00 0 20.50 0.24 6.18 -1.00
Selmer 89 51 72 5 0.00 0 35.01 12.73 8.41 0.49
Union_City 87 52 73 8 0.00 0 24.31 4.75 4.84 -2.10
Middle
Bethpage_1S 89 50 70 7 0.28 2 25.39 5.00 6.87 -0.52
Carthage 87 49 68 4 0.00 0 25.13 6.16 6.54 0.47
Centerville_4NE 84 47 68 5 0.65 1 23.63 0.07 6.77 -2.81
Cheatham_L_D 86 46 68 4 1.50 1 23.37 4.24 6.25 -0.56
Clarksville OUT 86 51 71 7 0.40 4 26.31 7.39 8.31 0.94
Coalmont 83 45 65 4 0.12 2 26.98 4.81 8.65 1.51
Columbia_3WNW 87 52 71 7 0.22 2 27.72 6.00 8.24 0.79
Cookeville 88 46 69 6 0.04 1 25.08 3.40 7.00 0.10
Crossville MEM 82 50 67 5 0.27 3 27.30 5.98 9.86 2.74
Dover_1W 86 50 71 6 0.49 2 26.18 6.20 10.88 3.79
Fayetteville_Wt 89 50 70 4 0.42 1 28.74 7.33 9.33 2.85
Franklin 93 51 72 7 0.26 3 24.20 3.67 7.61 0.42
Hohenwald 84 50 68 4 0.10 1 29.97 7.93 6.71 -0.91
Jamestown 85 49 67 6 0.61 2 24.99 3.99 8.90 1.77
Kingston_Spring 89 49 70 5 0.66 3 18.19 -1.32 4.38 -2.47
Lobelville 90 50 73 8 0.00 0 19.85 -2.09 3.84 -4.22
Monteagle 83 49 67 4 0.00 0 27.77 4.62 9.90 2.75
Murfreesboro_5 87 49 70 5 0.19 3 25.99 6.07 8.99 2.53
Nashville INTL 89 53 74 8 0.19 3 29.80 11.53 12.43 5.96
Shelbyville_Wtr 89 53 72 6 0.04 1 24.94 3.14 7.17 0.41
Sparta_WWTP 88 49 69 4 0.04 2 24.23 3.08 5.74 -1.00
Springfield_Exp 88 50 70 6 0.41 3 23.68 4.07 7.26 0.23
Tennessee_Ridge 87 50 71 7 0.13 2 27.21 6.98 5.98 -1.77
Tullahoma 87 50 70 5 0.00 0 24.96 1.55 6.49 -0.86
Waynesboro NA NA NA NA 0.00 0 30.16 7.58 6.74 -1.06
East
Athens 89 52 70 6 0.03 1 23.27 1.39 7.05 0.25
Bristol Tri-City 85 49 67 5 0.51 3 20.54 5.42 7.40 2.54
Chattanooga_Lov 90 55 73 6 0.18 2 22.95 2.40 9.35 3.53
Gatlinburg_2SW 85 50 66 4 0.39 2 24.53 4.08 5.06 -1.59
Greeneville_Exp 82 46 64 1 0.16 3 15.18 -0.64 3.39 -2.20
Kingston_Ag 90 53 70 6 0.01 1 25.79 4.19 6.78 0.25
Knoxville_AP 89 56 73 7 0.00 0 19.76 0.87 4.81 -1.16
Lenior_City 84 54 68 3 0.00 0 18.73 -1.78 5.14 -1.30
Morristown_Radi 86 52 68 5 0.19 1 18.58 0.74 2.54 -3.15
Oak_Ridge 90 54 73 8 0.16 2 23.01 2.64 4.76 -1.44
Roan_Mtn_3SW 81 42 60 0 0.26 2 20.66 2.80 6.44 -0.20
Rogersville_1N 80 49 65 2 0.91 2 23.55 6.36 5.24 -0.23
Townsend_5S 83 50 66 5 0.03 1 20.75 -0.61 5.95 -0.80
DFN = Departure from Normal (Using 1961-90 Normals Period). Rain Days = Days with precip of 0.01 inch or more during the week. Precipitation (rain or
melted snow/ice) measured in inches
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