USDA’s weekly Crop Progress Report has started tallying soybean planting progress. In the first report of the year to include soybeans, USDA showed 3% of the soybean crop is planted, which is one point ahead of average.

In Ohio, conditions seem to be prime in some areas, which allowed farmers to get a jump-start on the 2021 planting season. USDA's data shows farmers in the state already have 5% of the soybean crop planted, and the five-year average shows they typically haven’t planted any of the soybean crop this early in the year.