(Radio Iowa) — Farmers made some record progress putting crops in the ground last week. Warm, dry weather allowed the wheels to roll on tractors and planters and farmers now have forty-six percent of the beans in the ground. That compares to nine percent of the soybeans planted one week before — and it marks the most soybeans farmers had planted by May 3rd since records began in 1974. Bean planting is now one full month ahead of schedule. Thirty-nine-percent of the expected corn planting got done last week — and it is the first time since 201 that three-quarters of the corn crop was in the ground by May 3rd.