This week, we asked FBN members how corn yields have faired vs. expectations so far in 2025. Right at 50% indicated yields are below expectations while only 20% say yields are above expectations. Depending on how you define your own expectations this starts to poke some holes in the September USDA numbers that indicated yields trending above last year in many of the key corn producing states.…

With an absence of data coming from the USDA due to the current government shutdown, we decided to poll FBN members this week on the progress of their 2025 corn harvest. With just over 1900 members responding, national corn harvest appears to be at roughly 56% completion. This is up between 10-15% vs. some of the other independent polls released across the industry on October 15, but down from…

As of June 5, soybean planting progress comes in at ~88% which is up 4% from the USDA report this past Monday and 8% ahead of the 5-year average. Despite continued progress nationally, areas of the southern U.S. are still falling victim to heavy rainfall.…

The final corn planting progress poll of the season dropped yesterday and with just over 2,300 members responding we show corn planting at ~86% complete. With the USDA report from this past Monday showing 87% I suspect those still working to get corn in didn't make much progress this week. With with warm and dry weather finally on the horizon for those areas still going in KY, IN, OH and PA,…

With nearly 2,500 member responses this week, soybean planting progress is sitting at roughly 74%. This represents an 8% increase from the USDA report issued this past Monday.…

This week's corn planting progress shows nearly 74% completion across the 18 states we surveyed representing a doubling of acres planted vs. this time two weeks ago and an increase of ~12% since the USDA's report this past Monday.…

This week we polled FBN members about their soybean planting progress. With over 2,300 responses there are a few things that stand out. The first is the most obvious, and that is that where it's been raining, it's still raining! When you overlay this week's soybean map to last week's corn results, the general trend of who has planted and who hasn’t is almost identical and aligns with the wet…

The first FBN Planting Progress Poll was completed yesterday, May 1. With over 2,000 members responding, we show national corn planting progress at ~38%. When you look state-by-state, almost everyone at least has a start, but several areas from mid-Missouri through the Ohio River Valley have been slammed with record rainfall amounts in April leading to very slow progress. You can see the complete…

With the majority of states already at or near completion of soybean harvest, we limited this week's poll to only those that were not identified as complete in our previous poll. The results indicated North Carolina and Virginia are the only remaining states with significant soybean acreage left to harvest. The overall average of the states polled was 94%. National progress remains well ahead of…

This week’s harvest progress poll was focused on corn. With over 2,600 FBN® members responding, the national average comes in around 76% complete. This represents an increase of 11% vs. the USDA’s report from this past Monday and a 40% increase from the previous FBN poll on October 10. Both polls show progress well ahead of the 5-year average. The most notable increases come from MN and IA,…

Soybean harvest continues to move at a rapid pace across the U.S. with an estimated 85% of the crop harvested based on the poll results collected from over 2,100 FBN® members this week.…

This week we kicked off our 2024 Harvest Polling with a check on the status of corn harvest. With over 2,100 FBN members responding we can report a national corn harvest progress of roughly 36%. This is up slightly (as would be expected) from what the USDA reported earlier this week.…