U.S.D.A graph.

Farmers saw enough dry weather last week that planting season is closing in on the end.

The U.S.D.A. crop report released Monday shows 95% of the corn crop is now in the ground. That’s nine days ahead of last year and 12 days ahead of the five-year average. Sixty-five percent of that corn is poking through — about six days ahead of average.

Soybean planting moved from 69 to 84% complete in the last week. that puts farmers around one week ahead of last year and two weeks ahead of normal. Forty-three percent of the beans have emerged — which is six days ahead of the average.