@kannbwx

Only 22% of U.S. #corn was planted by Sunday, the slowest pace for the date since 2013 and well behind the 50% average. That is up from 14% last week. Trade expected progress at 25%.

Same as last week, the worst U.S. #corn planting delays as of Sunday were in top growers Iowa and Illinois, who were 49 and 43 percentage points behind normal. Just 22% of the crop had been planted nationally, down 28 points from normal.

@kannbwx

Same with #soybeans - the top growers are the most delayed versus normal. Iowa was just 7% planted on Sunday vs 34% average. Nationally, 12% was planted vs 24% normal, though this is not as severe a delay as exists for corn (not yet at least).

The big rain event last week helped the HRW to improve:

Soilmoisture anomaly:

These maps sometimes take a day to catch up to incorporate the latest data(the bottom map is only updated once a week).

https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/Soilmst_Monitoring/US/Soilmst/Soilmst.shtml#

Here's the latest weather for the next 2 weeks and for the Summer:

https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/83844/

https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/83698/

@kannbwx

This is what April rain looked like in Mato Grosso. Among lowest ever, worst since 2016. Second corn was terrible in 2016 but it was also planted much later than in 2022, so that helps this year. May rains are usually much lighter than April, which is why April is critical.

@kannbwx

#China says #corn plantings are down this year in favor of #soybeans & other oilseeds. They peg 22/23 corn imports at 18 mmt vs 20 mmt in 21/22. Soy imports 95.2 mmt in 22/23 vs 93 mmt in 21/22. They finally cut old crop bean imports, which was still 102 mmt as of last month.