The 2019 growing season continues to roll along and today's featured chart checks in on the USDA NASS reported corn crop condition for six states over the Midwest. The chart shows a daily interpolated time series of percentage of the corn crop rated in poor or very poor condition. Each year since 1986 is plotted along with three highlighted years. Of course, 2012 was a big drought year which significantly reduced yields. This year has been confounding. The percentage of acres rated poorly remains generally low for Iowa, but the crop is late developing this year and an increasing drought is of concern. The recent dry weather has been mitigated by limited amounts of heat stress. So we are kind of rolling along and wondering how this situation plays out for the rest of the growing season.

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