date:Jun 18, 2014
e five-year average.
The soybean crop in the 18 major states was rated 73% good to excellent (74% a week earlier and 64% a year ago), 23% fair (22% a week earlier and 30% last year) and 4% poor to very poor (4% the prior week and 6% last year). Soybeans were 92% planted (83 last year and 90% average) and 83% emerged (63% last year and 77% average).