USDA meteorologist Brad Rippey says
early season planting progress has been slow in much of the Midwest and Plains.
“We call this crop progress but given the weather that we’ve been seeing in many major production areas of the U.S. that may be a bit of a misnomer here as we head into mid-April,” he says.
He says U.S. corn planting fell behind the five-year average last week, but there was some progress in Missouri and Indiana.
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