Crop Progress: Another Week of Double-Digit Harvest Increases

By Jim Steadman|November 8, 2021

USDA may have ended its crop condition ratings beginning with its Crop Progress report for the week ending Nov.7. But it likely doesn’t matter considering the rate at which harvest is currently progressing.

First of all, the report showed that 98% of all cotton bolls are now reported open. That’s right on the 5-year average for the week, with 11 states on or above their respective averages.

Harvested numbers showed a second consecutive 10 percentage point increase, with 55% of the U.S. crop now harvested – just two percentage points behind the 5-year average and climbing fast.

In all, 11 of the 15 cotton producing states showed double-digit increases of their own, led by California (up 20 points), North Carolina and Oklahoma (both up 18 points), Alabama (up 17 points), Missouri and Virginia (both up 16 points), Georgia (up 15 points), Mississippi and South Carolina (both up 13 points), Tennessee (up 12 points), and Arkansas (up 11 points).