The U.S. Department of Agriculture reports that corn planting continues to be ahead of the five-year average.
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Missouri leads the way in corn planing, surpassing the five-year average by 50 percentage points.
According to OSU, farmers might be anxious to start planting because the highest yielding corn for the past two years was planted early in the fields, but that could backfire. That is ahead of the 15 percent that would be average for this time of year.
The biggest increases were central Iowa farmers, who planted about 38 percent and north-central Iowa farmers who planted a whopping 42 percent of corn in the span of a week.
For soybeans, 3% of the nation’s crop has been planted vs. a 2% five-year average. The USDA also reports that 82 percent of the state’s oats crop has been planted. The report also is available on the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship’s website at www.IowaAgriculture.gov or on USDA’s site at www.nass.usda.gov/ia.
Topsoil moisture levels rated 0 percent very short, 5 percent short, 89 percent adequate and 6 percent surplus. This marks the first soybean report of the 2016 planting season. Subsoil moisture supplies were rated 1 percent very short, 11 percent short, 79 percent adequate, and 9 percent surplus. Livestock conditions were reported as good, although some feedlots were muddy due to the rain.
In the Forest City area, the region has received.70 of an inch of precipitation. In between these two very warm days, the remainder of the week brought temperatures near to slightly above seasonal normals.
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Front-month CBOT corn futures settled 5.25 cents higher Monday to $3.7700/bushel.
