The US corn planting progress this year is shown in red, and we are at 2% complete, that’s the same as last week at 2%.

Last weeks 2% was likely something like 1.6-1.7 averaged up to 2 and this week its likely something like 2.3-2.4 which averaged down to 2.

The black line shows the average over the past 17-18 years and it’s worth noting that we typically hit the 50% planted mark around the 5-6 of May.

Last year in yellow, we got off to somewhat of a slow start, but big weeks with the first and second week of May allowed the US farmer to plant 50% of their crop in 2 weeks.