Corn and soybean quality took another small hit across the U.S. this past week, according to the Crop Progress Report released Monday afternoon.
Both crop saw a three-point decline in the good-to-excellent rating over the previous week.
As of June 26, the USDA report shows corn had a three-point decline in the good-to-excellent rating nationally over the previous week in 18 selected states – going from 70% to 67%.
Two weeks ago, the crop had a good-to-excellent rating nationally of 72%.
According to the Crop Progress Report corn conditions are currently:
• Very poor: 2%
• Poor: 6%
• Fair: 25%
• Good: 55%
• Excellent: 12%
Soybean condition ratings for the past week include:
• Very poor: 2%
• Poor: 6%
• Fair: 27%
• Good: 55%
• Excellent: 10%
The 65% in the good-to-excellent rating is three percentage points lower than last week’s 68%. By comparison, soybeans had a good-to-excellent rating of only 60% at this same time in 2021.
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