While we certainly could use some rain, the recent dry weather has allowed significant planting progress to be made as shown by the weekly USDA NASS update released yesterday. The featured chart presents the weekly soybean crop planting progress for six states. All of the years with data are plotted and this year along with last year are highlighted for comparison. All of the states shown are ahead of last year and above 50% completed.

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