date:Jul 31, 2013
hind 74 percent as the five-year average, the USDA said. Twenty per cent of the crop was setting pods as of July 28, down from 34 percent as the five-year average but up from 8 percent as of July 21, the USDA reported.
The soybean crops condition ratings deteriorated slightly with 63 percent rated good to excellent, down one percentage point from a week earlier, and 9 percent was rated very poor to poor, up a percentage point from the previous week, the USDA said. As with corn, the soybean crop