(FARGO, ND)– Wide open harvest weather is leading to a rapid harvest of corn and soybean crops nationwide as we near the end of October.
According to the latest Crop Progress Report, corn harvest is 65% complete as of Sunday, October 20th while soybean harvest is 81% complete nationwide. Iowa, Illinois and Minnesota were 68%, 67% and 66% harvested for corn respectively. North Dakota was at 47% and South Dakota at 56% harvested as of Sunday. Nationwide corn harvest was well ahead of the five year average of 52%.
For soybeans, Iowa was 91% complete as of Sunday while Illinois and Minnesota were 76% and 95% complete respectively. For North Dakota, soybean harvest is 89% complete and South Dakota is 91% complete. Nationwide, soybean harvest is also well ahead of the five year average of 67%.
Winter wheat planting nationwide is now 73% complete with 46% of the crop emerged as of Sunday. Cotton harvest was 44% complete nationwide this week as well. Other harvest numbers included sorghum at 64% nationwide, sugarbeets at 71%, sunflowers at 30% and rice at 96% complete as of Sunday.
View the full Crop Progress Report here: https://usda.library.cornell.edu/concern/publications/8336h188j
