Soybean Harvest Begins as USDA Reports 5% Progress Across Key States

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.