date:Jun 26, 2013
% planted, compared with 95% for the five-year average in the 18 main soybean-growing states. The U.S.D.A. also reported that, in the six main spring-wheat growing states, the new crop was 96% planted as of June 23, three percentage points behind the 99% five-year average.
Other statistics in the report painted a picture of crops that had significantly mitigated the consequences of early delays in planting because of excessively wet field conditions. The U.S.D.A. said 81% of the soybean crop wa