Crop Progress: Conditions Stable, Harvest Still Significantly Behind Pace – DTN

🕔Sep 17, 2019U.S. corn and soybean conditions held mostly steady last week, but both crops are still significantly behind the average pace in reaching maturity, according to USDA NASS’ latest Crop Progress […]

USDA Weekly Crop Progress – Crop Condition at 6-Year Low – DTN

🕔Sep 10, 2019Corn condition, which is already at a six-year low, dropped last week, according to USDA NASS’ latest Crop Progress report released Monday. NASS estimated that, as of Sunday, Sept. 8, […]

Spring Wheat: Unfavorable Weather Delays U.S. Harvest

🕔Aug 22, 2019Though early April is the ideal planting window for U. S. hard red spring (HRS) wheat, saturated fields and cold soil temperatures kept many farmers out of their fields until […]

Gap Growing Between Irrigated, Rainfed Crop Yields

🕔Aug 20, 2019A 65-year comparative analysis between U.S. yields of irrigated and rainfed crops has sounded a message to farmers, land managers and policymakers: Mind the gap. The University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Suat […]

Crop Progress: Still Behind Average, Conditions Unchanged – DTN

🕔Jul 9, 2019Row-crop development remained behind the five-year average pace last week, while little change was seen in crop conditions, according to the latest USDA NASS Crop Progress report released Monday. Nearly […]

USDA Crop Progress: Corn, Soy Conditions Hold Steady – DTN

🕔Jul 2, 2019Corn and soybean conditions — for the portion of those crops that was planted and emerged — held steady last week, according to the latest USDA NASS Crop Progress report […]

NASS Crop Acreage: Corn Up Despite Weather; Soy, Cotton, Wheat All Down

🕔Jun 28, 2019Corn planted area for all purposes in 2019 is estimated at 91.7 million acres, up 3 percent from last year. Compared with last year, planted acres are up or unchanged […]

USDA Weekly Crop Progress – DTN

🕔Jun 25, 2019Ninety-six percent of the corn that farmers intend to plant this year — on those acres that were still farmable following relentless rains and flooding this spring — was planted […]

Wheat Outlook: Production Lifted, Exports Continue to Face Headwinds

🕔Jun 21, 2019This month’s USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service Crop Production report provided revised winter wheat and desert durum production for 2019/20. On net, winter wheat is raised 6 million bushels on […]

Spring Wheat: Revenue Potential, Weather to Cut U.S. Acres

🕔Apr 4, 2019According to the March 29 USDA Prospective Plantings report, U.S. total spring-planted wheat area will fall to an estimated 14.2 million acres (5.75 million hectares), 7% below 2018/19, if realized. […]