USDA Crop Progress Report: Soybeans 83% In.

Jun 06, 2016

USDA released the weekly Crop Progress Report

Highlights from the report.

The USDA’s corn condition rating improved over the past week.

As of Sunday, 75% of the crop is reportedly in good to excellent condition, up 3% on the week, with 98% of the crop planted and 90% emerged.

In the first rating of the season, 72% of soybeans are called good to excellent. 83% of soybeans have been planted and 65% have emerged, both ahead of the respective five year averages.

The winter wheat harvest is just underway at 2%, compared to 10% typically this time of year, following widespread storms in the Plains last week. 91% of the crop has headed and 62% is in good to excellent shape.

79% of spring wheat is called good to excellent, unchanged on the week.

66% of U.S. pastures and rangelands are rated good to excellent, also unchanged on the week.

To review the whole USDA Crop Progress report with state by state breakdowns click on the following link.

http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/usda/current/CropProg/CropProg-06-06-2016.pdf

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