Corn Harvest Hits 11% as USDA Reports Mixed Crop Conditions

Today, the USDA published the 25th Crop Progress report of the 2025 growing season. Here’s a look at the latest corn, soybean, and wheat numbers.

Corn

As of Sept. 21, 91% of the corn crop across the country’s top 18 corn-growing states had reached the dent stage. With that, progress is 2 percentage points shy of the five-year average.

Across all states, 56% of the crop had reached maturity, 3 points behind the five-year average.

Harvest progress reached 11% across 18 states by Sept. 21. The five-year average is 11%, and last year at this time, progress had reached 13%.

The agency reported the condition of the corn crop in the top 18 states as follows:

• Good/excellent: 66%
• Fair: 24%
• Poor/very poor: 10%

The percentage of corn in the good/excellent category decreased 1 percentage point from the week prior.

Soybeans

The USDA reported 61% of the soybean crop across the top 18 soybean-growing states had reached the dropping-leaves stage, just ahead of the five-year average of 60%.

Across 18 states, 9% had been harvested by Sept. 21, level with average.

The condition of soybeans in those 18 states was as follows:

• Good/excellent: 61%
• Fair: 27%
• Poor/very poor: 12%

Good/excellent soybeans decreased 2 percentage points week-over-week.

Winter Wheat

Planting of the 2026 winter wheat crop is now underway in all the top 18 winter wheat-growing states. Progress had reached 20% as of Sept. 21, 3 percentage points behind the five-year average.

Across 11 states, 4% percent of the crop had emerged by Sept. 21. The five-year average is 4%.

Spring Wheat

In the six spring wheat-growing states, 96% of the crop had been harvested as of Sept. 21, matching the five-year average.