While the overall good-to-excellent ratings for corn quality trended one point lower in USDA’s latest crop progress report, out Monday afternoon and covering the week through June 28, crops rated “good” shifted three points lower while crops rated “excellent” shifted two points higher. Soybean quality ratings also slid a point lower this past week, bucking analyst expectations. And winter wheat harvest progress didn’t see as much momentum as the trade was expecting.
Corn quality slid moved from 68% of the crop rated in good-to-excellent condition a week ago down to 67% through Sunday. However, the split shifted from 56/12 to 53/14. Another 25% of the crop is rated fair (down one point from a week ago), with the remaining 8% rated poor or very poor (up two points from a week ago).
Physiologically, 9% of the crop is now silking, up from 5% last week. That’s also ahead of both 2025’s pace of 7% and the prior five-year average of 6%.
Soybean quality dipped a point lower, with 65% of the crop now rated in good-to-excellent condition. Analysts were expecting USDA to keep ratings unchanged. Another 27% of the crop is rated fair (down one point from last week), with the remaining 8% rated poor or very poor (up one point from last week).
Physiologically, nearly all (96%) of the crop is now emerged, which is slightly above the prior five-year average of 95%. Nineteen percent of the crop is now blooming, up from the prior five-year average of 15%. And 4% of the crop is now setting pods, up from the prior five-year average of 2%.
Winter wheat quality ratings were mostly steady this past week, with 26% of the crop still in good-to-excellent condition, matching analyst expectations. Another 27% of the crop is rated fair (down one point from last week), with the remaining 47% rated poor or very poor (up one point from last week).
Harvest progress was slower than expected, with 48% completion through Sunday. That was five points below the average trade guess of 53%. That’s still substantially ahead of both 2025’s pace of 34% and the prior five-year average of 39%.
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