01 Jun 2011Today’s USDA Crop Progress Report showed nice numbers for most states in regard to planted and emerged corn and soybean acreage. Corn planting is 86% complete, compared to a five-year average of 95%. The soybean crop is 51% planted, 20 points behind the 71% five-year average.
Corn is over 80% planted in two-thirds of the major corn-planting states. Those states furthest behind are Pennsylvania (61% complete) and Ohio, where only 19% of the crop has been planted compared to a five-year average of 93%.
The corn crop continues to emerge in all states and has popped up in all corn-producing states. The Iowa crop is 90% emerged, Missouri corn is 86% out of the ground and North Carolina has 96% of their corn crop now out of the soil. Ohio lags behind the furthest at only 9% emerged, and North Dakota’s corn crop is 30% emerged.
http://cornandsoybeandigest.com/corn/corn-86-planted-over-half-soybeans-ground
