June 30, 2008

Crop continues to look good

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USDA's crop progress report this afternoon shows that 70 percent of Nebraska's corn crop is in good to excellent condition, 24 percent is fair and 6 percent is poor to very poor. These numbers are similar to last week's and show that we have a good corn crop growing here in Nebraska.

For those that are curious, 2 percent of Nebraska's crop was silking at this time last year. No silking was reported this week, but that isn't a surprise considering the spring weather we had.

Nationally, USDA said 61 percent of the crop is in good to excellent condition, 28 percent is fair and 11 percent is poor to very poor. This compares to last week's 59 percent in good to excellent condition, 30 percent fair and 11 percent poor to very poor. A year ago, 73 percent of the crop was good to excellent, 20 percent was fair and 7 percent was poor to very poor.

So overall for the crop we have in the ground, things are looking swell.

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