date:Apr 24, 2013
16% as the 2008-12 average for the date, the U.S.D.A. said. Planting had not yet begun in top-producing Iowa (14% planted as the five-year average for the date), or in Colorado (8% average), Michigan (7%), Minnesota (11%), Nebraska (8%), North Dakota (4%), South Dakota (4%) and Wisconsin (4%). Corn planting was only 1% completed in Illinois (24% average), Indiana (16%) and Ohio (12%).
Spring wheat planting also made minimal progress with 7% of the crop seeded in the six major states as of April