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USDA Weekly Crop Progress Report
Anthony Greder 10/02 3:13 PM

This article was originally posted at 3:05 p.m. CDT on Monday, Oct. 2. It was last updated with additional information at 3:13 p.m. CDT on Monday, Oct. 2.

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OMAHA (DTN) -- The corn and soybean harvests were both about a quarter complete by the end of last week, according to USDA NASS' weekly Crop Progress report released Monday.

Corn was 82% mature and 23% harvested. Soybeans were 86% dropping leaves and 23% harvested.

Winter wheat was 40% planted and 15% emerged.

The nation's corn crop was rated 53% in good-to-excellent condition, unchanged from the previous week. Soybeans were rated 52% in good-to-excellent condition, up 2 percentage points from 50% the previous week.

Check this page throughout the afternoon for additional highlights from this week's report.

To view weekly crop progress reports issued by National Ag Statistics Service offices in individual states, visit http://www.nass.usda.gov/…. Look for the U.S. map in the "Find Data and Reports by" section and choose the state you wish to view in the drop-down menu. Then look for that state's "Crop Progress & Condition" report.

National Crop Progress Summary
This Last Last 5-Year
Week Week Year Avg.
Corn Mature 82 70 73 75
Corn Harvested 23 15 19 21
Soybeans Dropping Leaves 86 73 78 77
Soybeans Harvested 23 12 20 22
Cotton Bolls Opening 75 65 76 73
Cotton Harvested 18 13 21 17
Winter Wheat Planted 40 26 39 43
Winter Wheat Emerged 15 7 14 16
Sorghum Coloring 96 92 95 97
Sorghum Mature 70 58 67 67
Sorghum Harvested 35 28 33 34
Rice Harvested 75 66 68 69

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National Crop Condition Summary
(VP=Very Poor; P=Poor; F=Fair; G=Good; E=Excellent)
This Week Last Week Last Year
VP P F G E VP P F G E VP P F G E
Corn 6 12 29 43 10 6 12 29 44 9 9 12 27 43 9
Soybeans 5 12 31 43 9 6 12 32 42 8 6 10 29 46 9
Sorghum 11 17 31 32 9 11 16 31 33 9 19 30 31 18 2
Cotton 24 19 27 25 5 20 22 28 25 5 15 31 23 27 4

Anthony Greder can be reached at anthony.greder@dtn.com

 
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