Farmers double corn planting progress in one week

Growers have planted about 24 percent of the 2025 corn crop

Mother Nature provided U.S. corn farmers with a good week to plant, and growers took advantage of the conditions.

Nationally, farmers doubled their planting progress in one week from 12 to 24 percent, the USDA’s April 29 Weekly Weather and Crop Bulletin says.

With farmers intending to plant 95.3 million acres of corn in 2025, this means almost 23 million acres of corn are in the ground.

To put that number into context, Illinois and Iowa farmers combined for about 23.7 million acres of corn in 2024.

Farmers in North Carolina had the largest individual gain.

Growers there have planted 60 percent of their corn crop as of the April 29 report compared to 42 percent the week prior.

This represents an increase of 18 percent.

Meanwhile, already planted corn continues to emerge.

About 5 percent, or about 4.77 million acres of corn is up, the USDA’s report says.

That’s equal to the total combined corn grown in Wisconsin and New York last year.

Corn in Texas is the furthest along.

About 67 percent of the state’s anticipated 2.45 million corn acres, or 1.64 million acres, is up.

Soybean farmers continue to plant the 2025 crop.

Farmers increased planting progress by 10 percent to 18 percent, the USDA’s bulletin says.

This means growers have planted roughly 15 million acres of soybeans thus far.

That’s approximately how many acres of soybeans farmers in Indiana and Iowa planted in total in 2024.

Growers in Mississippi made the most progress in one week.

Producers in the state increased planted acres by 19 points to 54 percent.

This means of their 2.25 million intended soybean acres, growers have planted about 1.2 million acres of soybeans.

For context, Louisiana farmers planted 1.1 million acres of soybeans in 2024.