The USDA released their weekly update on corn planting progress and the featured map shows the estimated percentage that has been planted by state along with the departure from average for the first week of May. Our wet and mostly cold April has put the Midwest states well behind average. Typically, about half of the corn acres should have been planted by now. Some of the eight percent estimated to have been planted in Iowa may have to be replanted as cold rain and snow might have damaged the seed. The good news is that the weather appears to have straightened out with warmer temperatures and mostly dry conditions.

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