Mother Nature provided U.S. corn farmers with a good week to plant, and growers took advantage of the conditions.
Nationally, farmers doubled their planting progress in one week from 12 to 24 percent, the USDA’s April 29 Weekly Weather and Crop Bulletin says.
With farmers intending to plant 95.3 million acres of corn in 2025, this means almost 23 million acres of corn was in the ground at the time.
To put that number into context, Illinois and Iowa farmers combined for about 23.7 million acres of corn in 2024.