Farmers in the Corn Belt took advantage of better weather and made enormous progress last week in planting corn and soybeans. Iowa’s planted corn acreage rose from 14 percent to 57 percent as reported in the May 16 crop progress bulletin, while Illinois went [...]
Planting of 2022/23 soybeans remained behind average pace as of Apr. 24 due to a slow start in Illinois and Iowa, which were both just 1 percent planted vs. their five-year averages of 8 percent and 3 percent. Indiana soybean plantings had yet to [...]
Growers had planted 8 percent of forecast U.S. soybean acreage as of Apr. 25, tracking last season’s early pace and a few points ahead of the five-year average. Last spring, planting moved along very quickly during May; usually, soybean planting speeds up after most [...]
Day 2 of the crop tour was a ten-hour drive from Lincoln, NE to Indianapolis, IN (see map below). Driving out of Nebraska and into Iowa, corn and soybean crops looked noticeably more mature, I would estimate one to two weeks ahead of Nebraska [...]
The U.S. corn crop was 62 percent planted as of May 13, just about even with the five-year average. Top-producing states made major progress last week: Iowa’s crop was 65 percent planted, a gain of 25 points week over week; Illinois had 90 percent [...]
Growers have been busy getting the corn crop in the ground and as of May 6 had narrowed this year’s planting progress deficit to just five points behind the five-year average. In one week, Iowa jumped from 17 percent planted to 40 percent, and [...]
