Crop Progress – – Crop conditions improve for wheat, corn, peanuts; slip for soybeans and cotton

17% of the corn crop is in the silking stage, up 12 points from last week and 9 points ahead of the 5-year average. Crop conditions slipped slightly over the past week, dropping a point in the good to excellent category and the poor to very poor category. 76% of the crop is rated good to excellent and 6% as poor.  Last year at…