What a different a week makes for planting corn.
Through April 16th, planting in the US was well behind the pace set in 2016.
Indiana was the only state that is ahead of last year's total corn acres planted with 4% of the crop in the ground, which is 3% ahead of last year. It is now at 10% as of April 23.
On the other end of the spectrum, Missouri only had 17% of the crop planted as of Easter Sunday but last year, Missouri farmers had already planted 53% of the state’s crop. As of April 23, 78% of the crop had been planted.
Another state where corn planting was slow off the start, Illinois.
Farmers only had 6% of the state’s total corn acres planted by Easter, that was 7 percentage points below the state’s five-year average. It is now at 38%.
