planting

Soybean sprint underway as planting season rolls along

Farmers have planted two-thirds of the soybean crop — more than 54 million acres — a breath-taking change from a year ago when barely more than a quarter of the crop was in the ground by late May due to a persistently rainy spring, said the weekly Crop Progress report on Tuesday. Growers …

A lens for viewing today’s US planting, stocks reports

In two reports today, the Agriculture Department will clarify how tight soybean stocks will get this summer and how large, possibly record-setting, the fall harvests will be.

Corn planting lags, winter wheat worsens

Cold, wet weather is holding the spring planting season to a slow start, says the weeklyCrop Progress report from USDA. At the start of this week, 6 pct of corn was planted in the major states vs the usual 22 pct.

Cold weather, late snowfall slow spring planting

Nothing says spring planting like snowfall across the upper Midwest in mid-April, does it? Up to five inches of snow fell in north central Wisconsin on Monday with forecasts of an inch or two of snow today in Detroit and Toledo.