Farmers across the nation's midsection are making up for lost time, and are almost done planting soybeans after a soggy spring that put them weeks behind.
The weekly U.S. Department of Agriculture crop progress update released Monday shows that 96% of the nation's soybean crop is in the ground.
That's just 2% points behind the pace over the previous five years.
The USDA says that Illinois growers are 97% finished with their soybean planting, while Missouri growers have 93% of the crop sown.
In both states, that's a dash ahead of the trend of the previous half decade.
The USDA says roughly half of the corn crop is judged to be good, 11 percentage points higher than a year ago before a punishing drought settled in.