A cold and wet April put Iowa and the rest of the corn belt well behind schedule for planting corn. The weather did straighten out enough last week for major progress to made as shown by the featured chart. The USDA weekly crop progress report estimated 71% of the state's corn crop was planted by this past Sunday. This was up 56% from the previous week! The featured chart shows the weekly progress reports since 1979 in the top panel and the maximum week over week change in the bottom panel. Recent rains this week will slow progress again and our weather looks to turn a bit cooler.

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