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Key Takeaways
- Corn harvest reached 18%, with one top state still reporting 0% progress.
- Soybean condition improved week-over-week, with harvest reaching 19%.
- Winter wheat planting reached 34%, with emergence at 13%.
Today, the USDA published the 26th Crop Progress report of the 2025 growing season. Here’s a look at the latest corn, soybean, and winter wheat numbers.
Corn
As of Sept. 28, 95% of the corn crop across the country’s top 18 growing states had reached the dent stage. Progress is 1 percentage point shy of the five-year average.
Across all states, 71% of the crop had reached maturity, putting progress 3 points behind the five-year average.
Harvest progress reached 18% across 17 of the 18 states by Sept. 28. The five-year average is 19%, while last year at this time, progress had reached 20%.
Only North Dakota had no corn harvested, per the report. The state’s five-year average is 5%.
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 did not change week-over-week.
Soybeans
The USDA reported 79% of the soybean crop across the top 18 growing states had reached the dropping-leaves stage, ahead of the five-year average of 77%.
Across 18 states, 19% of the crop had been harvested by Sept. 28, 1 point shy of average.
The condition of soybeans in those 18 states was as follows:
- Good/excellent: 62%
- Fair: 27%
- Poor/very poor: 11%
Good/excellent soybeans increased 1 percentage point week-over-week.
Winter Wheat
Planting of the 2026 winter wheat crop is underway in all the top 18 winter wheat-growing states. Progress had reached 34% as of Sept. 28, 2 percentage points behind the five-year average.
Across 15 states, 13% percent of the crop had emerged by Sept. 28. The five-year average is 12%.
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