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Third Largest Soybean Crop in Process
WASHINGTON - Jun 29/12 - SNS -- Soybean planted area for 2012 is estimated at 76.1 million acres, up 1% from last year and is the third highest on record, according to the USDA's seeded area estimates for 2012.
Area for harvest, at 75.3 million acres, is up 2% from 2011. Record high planted acreage is estimated in New York, North Dakota, and Pennsylvania, and the planted area in South Dakota ties the previous record high.
The 2012 soybean planted area is estimated at 76.1 million acres, up 1% from 2011 and is the third highest on record. Compared with last year, planted area increased in 20 out of 31 States. Area for harvest is forecast at 75.3 million acres, up 2% from 2011.
Planting conditions this spring were much improved from last year when severe flooding in several areas during April contributed to delays in soybean planting. Planting of this year's soybean crop was underway in all 18 major States by the end of April. By April 29, twelve% of the intended soybean crop had been planted, 7 percentage points ahead of normal and 10 percentage points ahead of last year's pace. Heavy showers fell across parts of the northern and western Corn Belt during the first week of May, but very little precipitation occurred in the major soybean growing areas for the remainder of the month, allowing planting to remain at a pace ahead of last year and the 5-year average. As of June 3, soybean planting had reached 94% complete, 19 percentage points ahead of normal and more than 30 percentage points ahead of last year's pace. North Carolina was the only major State to be lagging behind normal planting pace at the beginning of June, trailing the 5-year average by 5 percentage points.
Roughly 79% of the soybean crop had emerged by June 3, forty percentage points ahead of last year's pace and 29 percentage points ahead of normal. Emergence advanced to 90% by June 10, with progress in all 18 major States ahead of the 5-year average with the exception of North Carolina. By June 10, emergence progress was more than 25 percentage points ahead of normal in 8 of the 18 major States.
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