U.S. corn starts growing season highly rated

Continuing with last week’s theme of weekly crop updates, we are going to look at the conditions side of that report this week.

As most know, the report "morphs," so to speak, throughout the year to go from showing planting progress in the beginning of the season to showing the condition of the now planted crop throughout the year and then to the harvest progress come fall.

At this point, we are transitioning from planting progress to condition ratings as corn planting has all but wrapped up and soybean planting is approaching the finish line. While condition ratings for the soybean crop will start next week, the newly released condition ratings for the corn crop showed one of the better starts to a season in recent history....