What You Need to Know
Corn:
- 18% at silking stage
- 3% at dough stage
- 74% good/excellent condition
Soybeans:
- 32% at blooming stage
- 8% at setting pods stage
- 66% good/excellent condition
Winter Wheat:
- 53% harvested
- 48% good/excellent condition
Today, USDA published the 14th Crop Progress report of the 2025 growing season. Here’s a look at the latest corn, soybean, wheat, and oat numbers.
Corn
As of July 6, 18% of the corn crop across the country’s top 18 corn-growing states had reached the silking stage. That’s ahead of the five-year average of 15%.
This was the first report of the season to include the progress of the corn crop at the dough stage. USDA said 3% of the crop across nine states had reached the dough stage. The five-year average is 2%.
The agency reported the condition of the nation’s corn crop as follows, including a season-high good/excellent rating:
- Good/excellent: 74%
- Fair: 21%
- Poor/very poor: 5%
Soybeans
The USDA said that as of July 6, 96% of the soybean crop across the top 18 soybean-growing states had emerged. The five-year average is 98%.
Thirty-two of the crop in all 18 states had reached the blooming stage, just ahead of the five-year average of 31%.
As of July 6, 8% of the crop in 14 states had reached the setting pods stage. The five-year average is 6%.
For the week that ended July 6, the condition of the nation’s soybeans was as follows:
- Good/excellent: 66%
- Fair: 27%
- Poor/very poor: 7%
Winter Wheat
The USDA reported that 53% of the winter wheat crop across 17 of the top 18 states had been harvested as of July 6, just shy of the five-year average of 54%.
Only farmers in Montana had not started winter wheat harvest, which is on track with historical trends.
The condition of the nation’s winter wheat crop was as follows:
- Good/excellent: 48%
- Fair: 34%
- Poor/very poor: 18%
With that, the country’s winter wheat condition holds at the lowest rating since the week ending April 20, when just 45% was rated good/excellent.
Spring Wheat
In the six spring wheat-growing states, 61% of the crop had headed as of July 6. That’s ahead of the five-year average of 58%.
The condition of the spring wheat crop was as follows:
- Good/excellent: 50%
- Fair: 35%
- Poor/very poor: 15%
Oats
Across the nine top oat-growing states, 85% of the crop had headed by July 6, ahead of the five-year average of 82%.
The condition of the nation’s oat crop was as follows:
- Good/excellent: 60%
- Fair: 25%
- Poor/very poor: 15%