According to today’s USDA weekly progress report of the 18 primary corn producing states, the percentage of crop rated good or excellent fell by three percentage points to 66% over this past week. The percentage of crop rated poor or very poor increased by two percentage points to 11%, while the percentage of crop rated fair increased to 23%, from 22% the previous week. Condition ratings still remain behind the 2010 crop, as 72% of the corn crop was in good or excellent condition, 19% was in fair condition, and 9% was in poor or very poor condition. Challenges continue to mount for the 2011 corn crop as seasonality hot weather and limited amounts of precipitation are anticipated over much of the corn belt for the next 7-10 days.
The USDA estimates that for the week ending July 17th, 35% of the 2011 corn crop has silked compared to estimates
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