About 7 percent of the crop is up, the USDA says
Soybeans across the U.S. are starting to emerge.
About 7 percent of the national soybean crop is up, the USDA’s Weekly Weather and Crop Bulletin says.
U.S. farmers are expected to plant around 83.5 million acres of soybeans in 2025, meaning approximately 5.85 million acres of soybeans have emerged.
For context, Indiana farmers planted 5.8 million acres of soybeans in 2024.
Of the states reporting emerged soybeans, Louisiana’s crop is the furthest along.
About 57 percent of the state’s intended 1.05 million acres, or around 598,500 acres of Louisiana soybeans are up.
Approximately 49 percent of Mississippi’s soybeans have emerged, along with about 38 percent of the soybean crop in Arkansas.
Only three states – Michigan and the Dakotas, report no soybean emergence as of the USDA’s May 6 report.
Spring wheat acres are emerging too.
13 percent of the intended 45.4 million acres, or around 5.9 million acres of spring wheat are up.
To put that emergence into perspective, farmers in the Dakotas combined for about 6 million acres of planted spring wheat in 2024.
Of the six states that account for most of the U.S. spring wheat crop, the crop in Washington is furthest along.
About 55 percent of the intended 500,000 acres, or about 275,000 acres of spring wheat, has emerged, the USDA’s report indicates.
The 2025 corn crop continues to emerge as well.
About 11 percent of the 95.3 million intended U.S. acres, or about 10.5 million acres of corn is up.
For comparison, Illinois farmers planted 10.8 million acres of corn in 2024.
Texas corn is the most emerged at 70 percent.
The next highest is North Carolina with 57 percent corn emergence so far.
Only Colorado and Wisconsin report no corn emergence as of the USDA’s May 6 report.