The USDA released their weekly crop progress report on Monday summarizing activity till 20 April. The featured map displays the statewide corn planting progress estimates along with the departure from average. Cold temperatures and cold soil temperatures have caused the delay in Iowa, but we are still only a few percentage points behind average. The largest departures are over the eastern half of the corn belt where the winter was the most abnormally extreme.

Voting:
Good = 26
Bad = 4
Abstain = 4