date:Jul 11, 2012
% the week before.
Nebraska, the state with the third-largest number of corn acres forecast to be harvested in 2012, also saw its corn good-to-excellent ratings slashed. The U.S.D.A. said 47% of the states crop was good to excellent, down sharply from 65% on July 1.
Soybean crop condition ratings in two of the three top-producing states, Iowa and Illinois, also declined. In Michigan, the soybean crop condition rating was even with the previous weeks report.
Iowa was forecast to harvest 9,440,000