As of the middle part of the week, row crop status seemed to be as follows:

Planted corn acres stand at 90% with 7% planted, but not yet emerged. Better than 40% of the crop was at V1 with roughly 18% of the crop in the V3 to V4 growth stage.

Planted soybean acres stand at 88% with about 10% of the crop planted, but not yet emerged. Better than one third of the crop was at or just past the unifoliate stage. Almost 20% of the crop was displaying one to two trifoliates.

Hay producers seized a brief lull in rain to get about 85% of alfalfa cut. As of this report, about 5% had been baled.

The wheat crop continues to progress rapidly with growers beginning to speculate cutting the crop a couple weeks earlier than the norm.

By Tuesday, growers in many locations began to apply herbicides.

While a portion of the planted crop will need to be replanted or augmented due to ponding and crusting (some locations saw a few inches of rain over the past week), actual replant numbers feel lower than one might have thought a week ago.

70-80 degree temps have finally allowed more recently planted crop to emerge. The warm spell has begun to nudge a portion of the crop from “ugly yellows” to healthier green.