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USDA Crop Progress Report Released

The USDA Released the weekly Crop Progress Report on Monday afternoon.

Highlights from the Report

The USDA reports U.S. corn and soybean condition ratings declined over the past week following another period of heavy rainfall and wet weather in some key growing areas.

As of Sunday, 68% of corn is in good to excellent condition, down 3% on the week. 4% of the crop is silking, compared to the five year average of 8%.

94% of soybeans are planted, 89% has emerged, and 8% are blooming, all a little bit slower than normal. 63% of soybeans are in good to excellent shape, 2% less than last week.

38% of winter wheat is harvested, up sharply on the week, but behind the usual pace, and 41% is rated good to excellent, unchanged from a week ago.

49% of spring wheat has headed, way ahead of average, and 72% of the crop is called good to excellent, up 1% on the week.

The condition rating for pastures and rangelands held at 65% good to excellent.

 

For more information and to see the state by state breakdown visit the following link

http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/usda/current/CropProg/CropProg-06-29-2015.pdf

Farms.com Risk Management is currently touring the Corn Belt and is finding large regions where this is significant crop damage to the corn and soybean crops.

To see the photos and watch the videos click the following link

http://riskmanagement.farms.com/events/us-cornbelt-tour-2015

Here is the video report from Moe Agostino after touring Ohio this weekend.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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