For the week of August 9th the crop progress report actually shows a slight increase in corn conditions while soybeans maintain their weekly status. Subsoil and topsoil moisture conditions continued to dry this week in the Northern plains and are starting to creep further south in Midwest.
The top of the report starts with corn silking and likely this is its last week, as 95% of the country’s corn is now in the silking stage. That is just 1% ahead of the 5-year average. Nebraska corn is at 99%, Kansas corn at 93%. North Carolina is the only state though to reach 100% for corn in the silking stage.