USDA crop progress report shows early planting on track

The USDA released its first crop progress report of the year showing most crops at or near the five-year average planting pace.

Corn is on pace with last year and the five-year average with two percent of the crop planted. Texas’ crop is past halfway planted, Kansas is at two percent and Missouri is at one percent.

Cotton is six percent planted nationally.

Oats are 23 percent planted, two percent behind last year.

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