date:Jul 11, 2012
At 40 percent good to excellent for corn (versus 72 percent in that category at the beginning of June) and also 40 percent good to excellent for soybeans (down from an initial rating of 65 percent in that category at the beginning of the season), these are easily the lowest-rated crops for this time of year since the Drought of 1988.
Admittedly, this year's crops are still rated a lot higher than they were in early July of 1988, when the national corn crop was just 14% good/excellent (and 50% p