Crop Progress – Corn and wheat conditions improve; soybeans, cotton, and peanuts remain unchanged

Corn crop conditions improved with favorable weather blanketing much of the Midwest. 70% of the crop is rated good to excellent 21% as fair and 9% as poor to very poor. The good to excellent rating is a point higher than last week and but continues to trail last years 75% rating. Conditions in Illinois and Indiana stopped declining in the good…