Crop Progress – Soybean rating improves, corn and peanuts unchanged, cotton slips

Corn crop conditions held steady in all categories. 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 excellent category last year. At the state level, Kansas, Missouri and Ohio all showed some crop improvement for the week.  Although, this was offset by deteriorating conditions in Illinois and…