US winter wheat harvest started
Winter wheat harvest in the US progressed to 3% of the total acreage as of May 31. The campaign covered 1% of areas on the reporting date last year, and it is an average of 5% over the past five years, the USDA report reads.
Corn sowing is 93% complete (2019: 64%) on the 89% average within the last five years.
Corn crops condition on the reporting date:
- excellent — 13% of plantings (12% in the comparative period of 2019);
- good — 61% (58%);
- fair — 22% (25%);
- poor — 3% (4%);
- very poor — 1% (N/A).
As of the reporting date, soybean was sown on 75% of areas, which is 39 and 7 pp more from the respective period of the previous year and the average for the previous 5 years.
Karen Braun, Global Agriculture Columnist at Thomson Reuters, notes that June may be hot and dry for US corn and soybean.
"Crops need the warmth right now but hot and dry conditions won't be welcome forever," she comments.
As of May 28, early spring grain, leguminous and industrial crops in Ukraine were sown on an area of 15.15 mln ha or 97% of the planned 15.56 mln ha. Soybean and corn are 93 and 99% sown, respectively.
