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Key Takeaways
- Corn harvest reached 11%, matching the five-year average.
- Soybean condition slipped week-over-week, with harvest reaching 9%.
- Winter wheat planting reached 20%, with emergence at 4%.
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.
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