04.26.2024
P66 Rodeo to begin producing SAF in Q3
Phillips 66 brought its long-awaited Rodeo Renewable Energy Complex online during the first quarter of 2024, but it is not producing sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) yet, the company said...
Crop Progress
Corn:
- 82 percent silking
- 22 percent dough
- 72 percent good to excellent; 7 percent poor to very poor
The corn crop has climbed to 82 percent of the fields has reaching the silking stage and 22 percent in the dough stage. Crop conditions benefited from good weather conditions over the past week. Fields rated good to excellent advance three points to 72 percent and declined by a point to seven percent in the poor to very poor category. On a state level, Illinois saw a 17 percent increase in crops rated good to excellent. Indiana and Kansas were both up more than 10 percent, but Iowa fell by 3.5 percent. This year’s corn crop is in better shape than last season’s. Last year fields rated good to excellent were at 68 percent while those seen as poor to very poor were…