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June 01, 2011

Almost all the corn and half the soybeans in the ground

Today’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 percent complete, compared to a five-year average of 95 percent. The soybean crop is 51 percent planted, 20 points behind the 71 percent five-year average.

Corn is over 80 percent planted in two-thirds of the major corn-planting states. Those states furthest behind are Pennsylvania (61percent complete) and Ohio, where only 19 percent of the crop has been planted compared to a five-year average of 93 percent. The corn crop continues to emerge in all states and has popped up in all corn-producing states. The Iowa crop is 90 percent emerged, Missouri corn is 86 percent out of the ground and North Carolina has 96 percent of their corn crop now out of the soil. Read more ...

This blog is written by Martin Little, The Global Miller, published and supported by the GFMT Magazine and the International Milling Directory from Perendale Publishers
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