3 percent of the corn crop is in
By Diego Flammini
Staff Writer
Farms.com
Corn planters are rolling throughout the U.S. as the 2024 planting season gets underway.
About 3 percent of the corn crop is in, the USDA’s April 7 Weekly Weather and Crop Bulletin says.
With the March Prospective Plantings report pegging U.S. corn acres at 90 million for 2024, this means farmers have planted about 2.7 million acres of corn.
Farmers in Texas have planted the most corn thus far.
Growers there have planted 59 percent of the state’s corn crop.
Texas farmers are expected to plant about 2.1 million total corn acres, meaning farmers have planted about 1.24 million acres of corn.
Producers in Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, North Carolina and Tennessee have planted between 2 and 8 percent of their respective corn acres.
Farmers have also planted spring wheat.
About 3 percent of the country’s spring wheat is in the ground, the USDA’s report says.
The USDA expects farmers to plant about 11.34 million acres of spring wheat.
This means farmers have planted more than 3.4 million acres of spring wheat.
On a state level, farmers in Idaho are the furthest along.
Growers there have planted about 25 percent of their state’s spring wheat crop.
With spring wheat acres estimated at 410,000 acres, this means farmers have planted about 102,500 acres of the crop.
Only farmers in Minnesota, South Dakota and Washington have recorded spring wheat planting aside from Idaho.
Growers in those states have planted between 2 and 21 percent of their spring wheat, respectively.