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Unplanted acres in Ohio raising concerns 

A north central Ohio farmer says they just wrapped up the 2025 planting season last week.

Patty Mann says this year’s slow progress resulted in switching a few corn acres to soybeans.

“We got a few days to work. We got rain. We waited four or five days. It was stop and go, stop and go,” she says. “In the last week, it seems like we planted about three fourths of our crop.”

USDA says Ohio corn is 89 percent planted, 68 percent emerged, and rated 58 percent good to excellent. Soybeans are 84 percent planted, with 58 percent emerged, and rated 53 percent good to excellent. 

She tells Brownfield the large number of unplanted corn acres in Ohio is raising concerns.

“Right now, until we get to this new crop, Ohio is in a corn deficit position and a lot of the ethanol plants are really paying to get some corn,” she says. “They’re getting a little worried about having enough corn to get through to this new crop.”

Mann raises corn and soybeans in Shelby County.

Winter wheat is 95 percent headed, and 67 percent good to excellent.

AUDIO: Patty Mann