Crop Progress – Corn and bean harvest continues to make good progress; crop conditions deteriorate for cotton and peanuts

The corn harvest is 42% complete, 19 points ahead of last seasons pace and 1 point less than the 5-year average. Corn crop conditions have held steady in the good-to-excellent categories for the past seven weeks. 68% of the crop is rated as good to excellent, 22% as fair, and 10% as poor to very poor. This compares to a 74% rating in the good to…