date:Sep 18, 2013
d 53 percent of the crop was in good-to-excellent condition as of Sept. 15, down from 54 percent good to excellent the previous week. A total of 18 percent of the crop was deemed very poor to poor, up a percentage point from 17 percent the previous week, the USDA said.
The soybean crop, which, like corn, experienced late planting because of an excessively wet spring, continued to make progress in dropping leaves, although the progress lagged the five-year average significantly. Some market par