The latest USDA Crop Report shows there were less than two suitable days for field work last week due to wet fields. Corn planting advanced just eight percent last week, with 47% now completed statewide, as progress is now two days behind last year and the five-year average. Soybean planting progress is now also behind two days as well, with farmers only progressing by five percent for a total crop planted at 30 percent. Iowa State University Extension field agronomist, Angie Rieck-Hinz, says things in her north-central area is one where planting came to halt.
Rieck-Hinz says there’s still time to finish planting.
She says most farmers don’t like to sit and wait after getting planting started, but that’s going to have to be the case for now.
Statewide seven percent of the corn crop that’s in the ground has emerged — which is three days ahead of last year and one day ahead of the average. Four percent of the soybean crop has emerged.
