USDA Crop Progress Report

Apr 15, 2013

USDA reports corn planting 2% complete, below 5-yr avg. of 7%. None in IA, IN and 1% in IL

Corn Planted - Selected States

[These 18 States planted 92% of the 2012 corn acreage]

                 :            Week ending            :

      State      : April 14, : April 7,  : April 14, : 2008-2012

                 :   2012    :   2013    :   2013    :  Average

                 :                    Percent

Colorado ........:     4         (NA)          -           3

Illinois ........:    38         (NA)          1          12

Indiana .........:    21         (NA)          -           6

Iowa ............:     4         (NA)          -           3

Kansas ..........:    16         (NA)          3          10

Kentucky ........:    55         (NA)          7          18

Michigan ........:     5         (NA)          -           2

Minnesota .......:     6         (NA)          -           2

Missouri ........:    37         (NA)          8          17

Nebraska ........:     4         (NA)          -           2

North Carolina ..:    50         (NA)         28          32

North Dakota ....:     3         (NA)          -           1

Ohio ............:     9         (NA)          1           3

Pennsylvania ....:     5         (NA)          1           2

South Dakota ....:     4         (NA)          -           1

Tennessee .......:    75         (NA)         11          27

Texas ...........:    54         (NA)         56          56

Wisconsin .......:     2         (NA)          -           1

18 States .......:    16         (NA)          2           7

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Video: Dry Farming, Deer Fencing, and Cover Crops in the Paths with Eric Nordell

We cover: today I am so excited to share this conversation with my buddy Eric Nordell of Beech Grove Farm in Pennsylvania to chat about, well, a lot of things. Eric and his wife Anne have run beech grove farm since 1983 and they do things a little differently (like farming with horses) but they dry farm which we discuss, they use some cover crops in the paths in interesting ways (also discussed) and in fact, we get into a whole digression about their deer fencing that you’re gonna wanna hear.