KAAPA Ethanol crop progress report for September 20th

The nation’s corn and soybean harvest continued to run at a near-average pace last week, with 10% of corn harvested compared to the five-year average of 9%, and soybeans 6% harvested, equal to the five-year average, as of Sunday, Sept. 19, USDA NASS said in its weekly Crop Progress report on Monday.

U.S. corn condition was rated 59% good to excellent, up 1 percentage point from 58% the previous week. Soybean condition was rated 58% good to excellent, up 1 percentage point from the previous week’s 57%.

Corn dented was 93% and corn mature was 57%. Soybeans dropping leaves were 58%.

Winter wheat planting was 21%, ahead of the five-year average of 18%. Three percent of the crop was emerged compared to the average of 2%.

National Crop Progress Summary
	This	Last	Last	5-Year
	Week	Week	Year	Avg.
Corn Dented	93	87	94	89
Corn Mature	57	37	56	47
Corn Harvested	10	4	8	9
Soybeans Dropping Leaves	58	38	56	48
Soybeans Harvested	6	NA	5	6
Winter Wheat Planted	21	12	19	18
Winter Wheat Emerged	3	NA	3	2
Cotton Bolls Opening	48	36	56	53
Cotton Harvested	9	5	10	11
Sorghum Coloring	92	83	91	88
Sorghum Mature	51	39	49	46
Sorghum Harvested	25	21	26	28
Rice Harvested	51	40	45	56

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National Crop Condition Summary
(VP=Very Poor; P=Poor; F=Fair; G=Good; E=Excellent)
	This Week		Last Week		Last Year
	VP	P	F	G	E		VP	P	F	G	E		VP	P	F	G	E
Corn	5	10	26	45	14		5	10	27	44	14		5	9	25	47	14
Soybeans	4	10	28	47	11		4	10	29	45	12		3	7	27	51	12
Cotton	1	7	28	51	13		1	5	30	50	14		9	18	28	35	10
Sorghum	4	11	29	46	10		4	10	29	47	10		5	11	33	40	11
Rice	1	2	21	61	15		1	3	22	59	15		1	4	21	56	18

View all of the USDA data firsthand here: https://downloads.usda.library.cornell.edu/usda-esmis/files/8336h188j/vx022d38r/p5548r56w/prog3921.pdf

Clay Patton has the full report here: