Crop progress update

Nebraska’s corn crop continues to progress nicely.

Moisture in the form of rain in some areas and irrigation in others has combined with warmer temperatures to push 72 percent of state’s corn crop into good to excellent condition, while 22 percent was fair and only 6 percent was poor to very poor, according to USDA's latest report. A year ago, 80 percent of the state's crop rated good to excellent.

Only 1 percent of the state's crop has reached the silking stage, compared to 11 percent average over the previous five years. Although this shows the crop is a bit behind, that is to be expected considering the cool spring we had -- and this number will increase rapidly over the next couple of weeks.

Nationally, 62 percent of the corn crop is in good to excellent condition, 27 percent fair and 11 percent poor to very poor. A year ago, 70 percent of the crop was good to excellent, 21 percent was fair and 9 percent was poor to very poor.

For details on Nebraska’s crop, click here.