USDA’s weekly Crop Progress and Condition report showed corn condition ratings bucked the usual trend of late-season declines by notching an improvement, while soybeans remained unchanged.
State-level breakdowns of the Pro Farmer Crop Condition Index, which compresses the USDA’s weekly crop progress report into a single, weighted, easy-to-track number that’s widely used to monitor the health and potential of U.S. corn and soybean crops during the growing season and more details around USDA ratings, are below:
Corn
USDA’s rating of the corn crop shows 17% as very poor to poor, 26% fair, and 57% good to excellent. The national level ratings actually saw corn’s good to excellent categories up a percentage point, the first week-over-week increase since July 12. The Crop Condition Index saw a 0.5 point increase from last week. Increases were seen in a majority of states, though Iowa and South Dakota did note declines of 0.50 and 1.2 points, respectively, that cut in to those gains.
| Pro Farmer Crop Condition Index for Corn | |||
| State | This Week | Last week | Year-ago |
| Colorado (0.86%*) | 2.50 | 2.41 | 3.25 |
| Illinois (15.63%) | 52.18 | 51.59 | 50.27 |
| Indiana (6.96%) | 23.70 | 23.77 | 23.31 |
| Iowa (17.37%) | 64.58 | 65.08 | 65.92 |
| Kansas (4.27%) | 14.68 | 14.49 | 17.75 |
| Kentucky (1.63%) | 6.16 | 5.98 | 5.40 |
| Michigan (2.32%) | 8.47 | 8.27 | 7.45 |
| Minnesota (9.85%) | 34.25 | 34.45 | 36.95 |
| Missouri (3.80%) | 14.24 | 14.20 | 15.06 |
| Nebraska (11.37%) | 41.43 | 40.96 | 46.73 |
| North Carolina (0.69%) | 1.72 | 1.69 | 2.70 |
| North Dakota (3.26%) | 10.08 | 9.70 | 13.66 |
| Ohio (4.18%) | 14.48 | 14.14 | 12.79 |
| Pennsylvania (0.66%) | 2.69 | 2.70 | 2.44 |
| South Dakota (5.47%) | 17.52 | 18.72 | 23.38 |
| Tennessee (0.81%) | 3.42 | 3.42 | 2.87 |
| Texas (1.41%) | 4.77 | 4.77 | 5.97 |
| Wisconsin (3.66%) | 12.47 | 12.58 | 14.13 |
| Corn total | 350.43 | 349.93 | 372.43 |
* denotes percentage of total national corn crop production.
Soybeans
USDA’s soybean ratings show the crop rated as 13% very poor to poor, 29% fair, and 58% good to excellent. National-level ratings from USDA were unchanged despite minor state-level changes. The changes saw the CCI drop 0.66 point, with most states seeing very little change. South Dakota (down 0.84 point) and Ohio (up 0.43 point) saw the largest change in each direction from last week.
| Pro Farmer Crop Condition Index for Soybeans | |||
| State | This Week | Last week | Year-ago |
| Arkansas (3.82%*) | 13.54 | 13.79 | 13.58 |
| Illinois (15.74%) | 54.54 | 54.54 | 51.61 |
| Indiana (7.90%) | 27.79 | 28.02 | 27.87 |
| Iowa (13.73%) | 52.89 | 53.17 | 53.99 |
| Kansas (3.03%) | 10.88 | 10.84 | 13.12 |
| Kentucky (2.32%) | 8.14 | 7.99 | 6.81 |
| Louisiana (1.18%) | 3.89 | 3.92 | 4.19 |
| Michigan (2.38%) | 8.64 | 8.56 | 8.24 |
| Minnesota (8.19%) | 28.98 | 28.98 | 31.93 |
| Mississippi (2.38%) | 9.25 | 9.15 | 8.71 |
| Missouri (6.45%) | 22.65 | 22.45 | 23.94 |
| Nebraska (6.60%) | 25.51 | 25.30 | 26.89 |
| North Carolina (1.48%) | 4.95 | 4.97 | 5.24 |
| North Dakota (5.18%) | 15.23 | 15.33 | 19.21 |
| Ohio (6.31%) | 22.63 | 22.20 | 21.47 |
| South Dakota (5.06%) | 16.62 | 17.48 | 21.32 |
| Tennessee (1.82%) | 6.83 | 6.81 | 5.37 |
| Wisconsin (2.52%) | 8.65 | 8.70 | 10.13 |
| Soybean total | 354.69 | 355.35 | 367.16 |
* denotes percentage of total national soybean production.