National Ag News

U.S. corn planting has officially wrapped up. How many acres that actually represents is pretty uncertain. Weather during planting caused delays in some key growing areas and led to replanting and in some cases, even re-replanting. Those delays for corn likely also had some impact on U.S. soybean acres. New USDA acreage numbers are out at the end of June and prevent plant numbers are scheduled for August.

94% of corn has emerged, matching the five year average, and 67% of the crop is in good to excellent condition, down 1% on the week.

Continue reading 67% of U.S. corn, 66% of soybeans rated good to excellent at Brownfield Ag News.