US corn now 95% harvested with soybeans at 96%

HOUSTON (ICIS)–The US harvest is nearly over with corn now at 95% and soybeans having reached 96% completed according to the latest US Department of Agriculture (USDA) weekly crop progress report.

The pace of corn harvest is ahead of both the 86% level achieved in 2023 and the five-year average of 84%.

All the reporting states for corn are at 90% completed except for Pennsylvania at 67%, Colorado at 82% and Wisconsin at 89% of their acreage concluded.

Soybean harvesting has climbed to 96%, which is above the 94% rate from last season as well as the five-year average of 91%.

All the reporting states for soybeans are at 90% completed except for North Carolina at 53%, Kentucky at 83% and Tennessee at 89% of the crop done.

In other harvesting updates the USDA said there is now 71% of the cotton crop done with sorghum acreage 91% completed.