date:Jul 31, 2013
ent crop condition ratings. The USDA said 63 percent of the crop in the 18 states was rated good to excellent as of July 28 and 11 percent was very poor to poor, the same as the previous week and far better than a year earlier when only 24 percent of the crop was rated good to excellent while 48 percent was rated poor to very poor.
A total of 65 percent of the soybean crop in the 18 main soybean-growing states was blooming in the latest week, up from 46 percent blooming the previous week but be