Harvest Takes Sluggish Step Forward

A Farm Progress article

The latest UDSA crop progress report, out Monday afternoon and covering the week through Sept. 27, showed rain across the central U.S. over the past several days was enough to hamper fieldwork in some areas. That was especially true for soybean harvest, which was slower than the entire set of trade guesses issued before Monday’s report. Corn harvest was also a bit slower than analysts were expecting this past week.

Corn quality held steady over the past week, with 57% of the crop still rated in good-to-excellent condition through Sunday. About 26% was rated fair (unchanged from last week), with the remaining 17% rated poor or very poor (also unchanged from last week).

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