2022 Corn and Soybean Planting Season Nears End

TheUSDANational Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS)Crop Progress reportfor June 6, 2022, shows the spring planting season is wrapping up.

As of June 5, 94% of corn and 78% of soybeans have been planted. Corn planting is just over the 5-year average of 92%, while soybean plantings are just under the average of 79%.

Sorghum, 100% of which was grown in just six states, is being planted at a faster rate than 2021, with 56% already in the ground vs 50% last year,

一个令人印象深刻的数字，考虑到生产商向美国农业部报告，他们计划种植record number of Sorghum acres in 2022.

The early corn crop

While overall corn planting is moving at an above-average pace, planting conditions throughout the 18 states that planted 92% of the 2021 corn crop are varied. Only one state, North Carolina, has finished planting vs. four that had completed in 2021. Only Colorado and Kansas are further along in corn planting than they were in 2021.

A few states made significant gains last week. North Dakota planted 25% of the state's corn crop in just one week. In just one week, seven states planted at least 10% of its overall corn crop.

尽管78％略低于81％的五年平均水平，但已种植的大多数玉米已经出现。今年的玉米出现可能不会远远落后平均水平，但是如果与去年相比感觉很慢。在2021年，种植了更多的玉米，种植了11％的玉米。

The early soybean crop

大豆种植是moving at a slightly below-average pace, 78% vs. 79%, respectively. But the planting rate is down 11% from 2021. That may have something to do with more producersplanning to devote acres to soybeansthis year. There are also reports of asoybean seed shortagein a few key soybean states. Of the 18 states that planted 96% of the 2021 corn crop only one state, Louisiana, has finished planting. Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina and Tennessee are further along in soybean planting than they were in 2021.

Just over 50% of soybeans that have been planted have already emerged, once more not far below the average of 59%. The emergence level is well below 2021's 74%, but spring planting was exceptional in 2021.

—Steven Kilger