[URL="http://usda01.library.cornell.edu/usda/current/CropProg/CropProg-07-09-2012.pdf"]July 8[/URL]
Picking on corn. Crop progressing rapidly with 50 % in the silking stage versus 11 % in 2011 and 19 in 5 year average.
Rating - 40 % good or excellent versus 48 % last week and 69 % in 2011 (last year was not a banner year either with a later corn crop/hot weather at the end of July). On the other end of the world - 40 % rated poor or very poor versus 22 % last week and 9 % in 2011.
Soybean crop story very similar (you can find the numbers) with the crop early and crop condition a mirror image.
Spring seeded seeded cereals. Close to 2/3 rated good or excellent. Also early. 75 % of the US winter wheat crop harvested.
Picking on corn. Crop progressing rapidly with 50 % in the silking stage versus 11 % in 2011 and 19 in 5 year average.
Rating - 40 % good or excellent versus 48 % last week and 69 % in 2011 (last year was not a banner year either with a later corn crop/hot weather at the end of July). On the other end of the world - 40 % rated poor or very poor versus 22 % last week and 9 % in 2011.
Soybean crop story very similar (you can find the numbers) with the crop early and crop condition a mirror image.
Spring seeded seeded cereals. Close to 2/3 rated good or excellent. Also early. 75 % of the US winter wheat crop harvested.
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