(Washington D.C) Corn and Soybean crop condition ratings fell this week, according to the latest USDA Crop Progress Report released on Monday afternoon.
Corn condition ratings declined 2 percentage points from 64-percent good to excellent a week ago to 62-percentage points as of Sunday, August 15.
The eastern corn belt states came through with the highest ratings. Ohio boasts a corn condition rating of 81-percent good-to-excellent, Illinois, 74-percent, Indiana, 72-percent, Nebraska, 68-percent, Missouri, 67-percent, and Iowa 58-percent good-to-excellent. The northern corn belt has the lowest ratings with Minnesota, 35-percent good-to-excellent, and South Dakota, just 24-percent good-to-excellent.
Corn in the dough stage is estimated at 73-percent, five percentage points ahead of the five-year average. Corn in the dent stage is even with one ago at 22-percent.
In Ohio, Illinois, and Indiana, the soybean crop is rated 73, 71, and 68-percent good-to-excellent, respectively. Nebraska’s soybean crop is in good shape with a 72-percent good-to-excellent rating. The soybean crop in Missouri is 65-percent good-to-excellent, Iowa stands at 58-percent, and Minnesota and South Dakota have the poorest ratings at 29 and 22-percent good-to-excellent, respectively.
Nationwide, 94-percent of the soybean crop is blooming, even with the 2020 crop at the same time a year ago, and 81-percent of the crop is setting pods, two percent ahead of the five-year average.
