Acres that U.S. farmers were unable to plant have more than tripled from the same period last year as extreme weather wreaks havoc on fields.
Prevented planting acres were at 6.4 million, according to the USDA Farm Service Agency’s August report. That’s up from 2.1 million in 2021. Corn was the hardest hit with more than 3 million acres unplanted, with the data indicating there were 1.19 million corn acres in North Dakota and 540,193 corn acres in South Dakota prevented from planting. Soybean prevented planting totaled 987,229 acres in the August data, with more than half — 522,061 acres — in North Dakota.
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