USDA Reports Little Change in Crop Condition

Corn, cotton and grain sorghum condition all have the same percentages good and excellent as last week. Soybeans improved by two percentage points.

Corn, cotton and grain sorghum condition all have the same percentages good and excellent as last week. Soybeans improved by two percentage points.

Winter wheat harvest is almost complete with only 5% to go—a few percentage points more than average. Spring wheat harvest is lagging slightly, at 53% versus normal 60%.

Corn is ahead of normal, with 88% in dough stage versus 74% average; 54% dented versus 37% average and mature, 8% versus 6% average.

Soybean maturity is about average with 91% setting pods versus 90% average.

Ninety-one percent of sorghum is headed versus an average of 85; 46% is coloring (versus 45%) and 25% is mature (versus 27%).

Cotton is slightly ahead of average: 94% setting bolls (versus 90%) and 21% opening (versus 16%).

Pasture condition is virtually unchanged at 52% excellent or good. Some states have fairly high percentages in the poor and very poor categories, however.


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