Last week’s warmer and drier weather created an open window for more farmers to start on planting. According to USDA’s weekly Crop Progress report released Monday afternoon, 12 states have already ...

Persistent rains and frost damage challenge 2026 planting progress as Midwest growers race against the calendar to finish ...

Farming is on track nationally, but in the upper Midwest, progress has been slow. Iowa farmers are ahead, but planting has been slow in South Dakota and Minnesota and nonexistent in North Dakota. At ...

Ohio farmers made planting progress last week, though wet conditions continued to limit fieldwork. USDA says there were 2.4 ...

Hired man Braden Klusmann seeds spring wheat for farmer Shane Tellmann, north of New Salem, N.D., on May 26. They finished seeding wheat the next day. In a surprising move, soybeans hit new contract ...

While much of Indiana’s farm country has raced through spring planting under unusually favorable conditions, farmers across ...