(Area) The nation’s corn condition rating dropped again this week, according to the USDA NASS weekly crop progress report. The soybean crop’s condition rating was the same as a week ago.
The corn good-to-excellent rating fell to 54 percent, down one percentage point from last week and five percent worse than one year ago. Eighty-six percent of the nation’s corn crop is in the dough stage, two percent below the five-year average of 52 percent. Eight percent of the corn crop is mature, near the five-year average of nine percent.
Illinois is the garden spot, with 69 percent of the state’s corn crop rated good-to-excellent, Iowa and Wisconsin, 66 percent, Minnesota 65 percent, Ohio 58 percent,
Ninety-one percent of the soybean crop is setting pods, one percent behind the five-year average of 92 percent. Four percent of the soybean crop is dropping leaves, four percentage points behind last year’s eight percent and three percentage points behind the five-year average of seven percent.
Wisconsin leads the breadbasket states with 74 percent of the state’s crop rated good-to-excellent, Illinois and Minnesota rate 66 percent good-to-excellent, Iowa, 63 percent, Ohio 59 percent, Missouri, and Indiana, 54 percent, and Nebraska crop receives 43 percent good-to-excellent rating.
