The good-to-excellent rating for Illinois corn and soybeans improved
last week.

The USDA reports as of Sunday corn is rated 63% good to excellent, up 3 percentage points from the week before and soybeans are rated 67% good to excellent, a jump from 59% the previous week.

69% of the corn crop is silking with 9% in the dough stage
while soybeans blooming reached 55% with 22% setting pods.

Winter wheat harvest is nearly complete with 94% harvested.

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