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Key Takeaways
- Corn and soybean harvests are just beginning, with progress close to or slightly ahead of average.
- Crop conditions slipped slightly, with corn at 67% and soybeans at 63% good/excellent.
- Winter wheat planting is behind normal pace, while spring wheat and oats are nearly fully harvested.
Today, the USDA published the 24th Crop Progress report of the 2025 growing season. Here’s a look at the latest corn, soybean, wheat, and oat numbers.
Corn
As of Sept. 14, 85% of the corn crop across the country’s top 18 corn-growing states had reached the dent stage. With that, progress is 1 percentage point shy of the five-year average.
Forty-one percent of the crop across all states had reached maturity, level with the five-year average.
Harvest progress reached 7% across 11 states by Sept. 14. The five-year average is 7%, and last year at this time progress had reached 8%.
The agency reported the condition of the corn crop in the top 18 states as follows:
- Good/excellent: 67%
- Fair: 24%
- Poor/very poor: 9%
The percentage of corn in the good/excellent category decreased 1 point from the week prior.
Soybeans
The USDA reported 41% 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 40%.
Harvest progress was reported for the first time this season. Five percent of the crop across 11 states had been harvested by Sept. 14, 2 points ahead of average.
The condition of soybeans in those 18 states was as follows:
- Good/excellent: 63%
- Fair: 26%
- Poor/very poor: 11%
With that, good/excellent soybeans decreased 1 point week-over-week.
Winter Wheat
Planting of the 2026 winter wheat crop is now underway in 16 of the top 18 winter wheat-growing states. Progress had reached 11% as of Sept. 14, 2 points behind the five-year average.
Spring Wheat
In the six spring wheat-growing states, 94% of the crop had been harvested as of Sept. 14, just ahead of the five-year average of 92%.
Oats
Across the nine top oat-growing states, 95% of the crop had been harvested as of Sept. 14, 3 points behind the five-year average.
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