See AgWeb’s Soybean Planting Map: Cotton planting is on pace with 16% of the crop in the ground, which is on pace with last year and the five-year average. See the full Crop Progress report.

First major USDA reports of 2025 buoy the spirits of corn and soybean farmers but bring heartburn to cotton farmers.

“We’re in need of some good springtime rains and planting rains ... or in the south, the corn-cotton ratio has trended in favor of cotton, mostly most of the winter and into the spring ...

Consultancy hEDGEpoint Global Markets said cotton planting in Brazil should occur ... at a disadvantage” to competitors such as corn, soybeans, peanuts, rice, and wheat, analyst David Silbiger ...