Only 5 percent of the corn crop is listed as being in poor to very poor shape. Further, 98 percent of the corn crop has emerged, the report said, although emergence becomes a limited measure of progress as most of the crop is expected to have emerged by this time of year.
The weekly crop report said 80 percent of the soybean crop has emerged in the field, right in line with the crop's historic average.
The USDA said 94 percent of the rice crop and 97 percent of the spring wheat crop have also emerged.
The winter wheat harvest is just under way. Nine percent of the winter wheat crop in the 18 major production states is complete.
Seventy-one percent of the winter wheat crop is listed in fair to excellent shape.
Twenty-nine percent is reportedly in very poor to poor shape, the report said.
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