USDA Released the weekly Crop Progress Report
Here is a link to the full report.
http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/usda/current/CropProg/CropProg-05-04-2015.pdf
Report Highlights.
The USDA reports farmers accomplished a lot by last week with U.S. corn planting increasing thanks to favorable weather around most of the region.
As of Sunday, 55% of corn crop is planted, compared to 19% last week. A year ago, 28% was planted and the five year average for this week is 38% planted. 9% of corn has emerged, compared to 6% last year and 12% on average.
Farmers were also able to get 13% of soybeans planted, compared to 5% a year ago and 9% on average.
43% of the winter wheat crop has headed, compared to 34% on average, and 43% of the crop is rated good to excellent, up 1% on the week. Spring wheat planting is at 75%, well ahead of the five year average of 40%, and 30% of the crop has emerged, compared to 16% on average.
53% of U.S. pastures and rangelands are in good to excellent condition, 14% more than this time last year.