Corn harvest is at 63% overall; the same progress as the five year average and ahead of 2017 by 11%. NC and TN area nearly finished with harvest at 95% harvested. IA, MI, NE, ND, SD, and WI are the only states under 50% harvested.
Soybeans harvested are at 72% overall. This is behind the progress from previous years by 9%. LA is nearly finished with harvest at 93% harvested. KS and NC are the only states under 50% harvested. In 2017, at this time of year, LA was finished with their soybean harvest. Most states are behind their progress from previous years with the exceptions of IL, IN, and KY which are 1-3% ahead of previous years.
Cotton bolls opening are almost finished at 91% overall and are expected to continue through this growth stage through the week. This week, MS and TN reached 100% bolls opening. Overall progress is behind previous years by 1-3%. Cotton harvest is at 44% overall. KS is reporting under 5% harvested and is about 7-8% behind progress from previous years. AR, LA, and MO are reporting over 80% harvested; most other states are under 50% harvested.
Sugarbeet harvest is at 82% overall which is behind previous years by 3%. ND is nearly finished at 98% harvested while MI just made it over 50% harvested this week.
Sorghum harvest surpassed the halfway mark and is at 53% harvested overall. No new states have reached 100% and IL and TX are the only states reporting over 80% harvested. KS, NM, and SD are reporting under 35% harvested.
Peanut harvest is at 66% overall, all states except for AL are behind their progress from 2017. FL has the furthest progress with 81% harvested where TX and OK are reporting below 50% harvested.
Sunflower harvest is at 33% overall. This progress is behind previous years by 12-17%. SD is the furthest behind with 16% harvested; behind progress from their previous years by 32%. Most other states are nearly or at least 40% harvested.
Rice harvest is coming to a close at 96% harvested overall. Rice harvest is expected to finish this week. CA was behind earlier in the year but was able to make 26% progress this week going from 66 to 92% harvested.
This information is available from the National Agricultural Statistics Service’s Crop Progress available here: Crop Progress 10-29-2018.
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Harvest Progress |
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Crop |
10/28/2017 |
10/21/2018 |
10/28/2018 |
2013-2017 Average |
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Corn |
52% |
49% |
63% |
63% |
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Cotton |
45% |
39% |
44% |
43% |
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Peanuts |
72% |
56% |
66% |
70% |
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Rice |
99% |
90% |
96% |
98% |
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Soybeans |
81% |
53% |
72% |
81% |
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Sorghum |
57% |
46% |
53% |
66% |
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Sugarbeets |
85% |
65% |
82% |
85% |
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Sunflowers |
50% |
19% |
33% |
45% |
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