date:Jul 18, 2012
Corn crop condition in top-producing Iowa took a serious hit as well, with a 10-percentage-point drop in the crops good to excellent rating.
The corn crop in the 18 major growing states was rated 31 percent good to excellent as of July 15, down from 40 percent a week earlier and compared with 66 percent at the same time last year, according to the USDA.
Soybeans saw slightly less precipitous declines in good to excellent conditions in the current crop progress report, but the trend was definit