date:May 30, 2013
parts of Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin and the Dakotas, they will plant corn until the first week of June, he said. After that, unplanted corn acres will either be switched to soybeans, written off for crop insurance or simply abandoned, he said.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture said in its latest Crop Progress report that 86% of the crop was planted as of May 26, down from the five-year average of 90%.
Because of a wet spring, farmers had to frenetically plant as much of the 2013 crop as they