# Crop Progress: Season End in Sight

Author: Jim Steadman
Published: 2022-10-31
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As November begins, so do the last few weeks of the USDA Crop Progress report for 2022. We’re down to two weekly recaps for cotton this week – boll opening and harvest. [Here’s what USDA had to say for the week ending Oct. 30](https://release.nass.usda.gov/reports/prog4522.pdf).

Open bolls are now reported in 96% of the U.S. crop – up 4 percentage points in the past week and still slightly ahead of the 5-year average for the date. All 15 cotton-producing states remain ahead of their respective averages for open bolls.

Harvest is now complete across 55% of the U.S. cotton acres. That’s up 10 percentage points in the past week and a (whopping) 8 points ahead of the 5-year average. Again, all states are ahead of average for harvest, with the biggest percentage increases in the past week coming in South Carolina, North Carolina, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Missouri.