About 2 percent of corn is up
Corn plants across the United States are beginning to emerge.
About 2 percent of the national corn crop is up, the USDA’s April 22 Weekly Weather and Crop Bulletin says.
With farmers intending to plant around 95.3 million acres of corn in 2025, this means about 1.9 million acres of corn have emerged.
For context, Kentucky farmers planted 1.6 million acres of corn last year.
Corn in Texas is the furthest along.
About 63 percent of the state’s 2.45 million intended corn acres, or 1.54 million acres of corn, have emerged, the USDA’s report shows.
Farms.com spoke with a Texas farmer early in the season about his corn planting.
The next state with significant corn emergence is North Carolina.
About 21 percent of corn in the state is up.
Farmers there are hoping to plant about 910,000 acres of corn in 2025, so just over 191,000 acres of corn have emerged.
The 2025 spring wheat crop is up too.
About 2 percent of the crop has emerged, according to the USDA’s figures.
Growers intend to plant about 10 million acres of spring wheat this year, meaning about 200,000 acres are up.
Spring wheat in Idaho is the furthest along with 15 percent emergence.
Farmers there are planting roughly 400,000 acres of spring wheat, therefore spring wheat on about 60,000 acres has emerged.
Soybean planting continues across the U.S.
About 8 percent of the crop is in the ground, the USDA’s report says.
Farmers are expected to plant about 83.5 million acres of soybeans in 2025, meaning about 6.7 million acres of soybeans have been planted so far.
To put that number into perspective, North Dakota farmers planted 6.2 million acres of soybeans in 2024.
Louisiana farmers are the furthest along, reporting 56 of their soybean acres planted.