date:Sep 05, 2012
CORN
On Tuesday, the USDA indicated the U.S. corn good/excellent rating is unchanged from a week ago, while the same soybean rating dropped 1% in that same time period.
For corn, the USDA rates the crop as 22% good/excellent, 26% fair, and 52% very poor-poor. The crop is 10% harvested, ahead of a 3% year ago pace and a 3% five-year average. The USDA measured the U.S. corn crop as 86% dented, sharply ahead of just 65% dented a year ago. Also, 41% of the corn is in the mature stage, compared to 15