What are you gonna believe? Usda data or the three farms in this article?
LATE FROST AND DRY WEATHER CAUSE CROP DAMAGE
That is Alabama, Illinois, and South Dakota speaking. With corn killing frost just northwest of Chicago, 100F days and dry weather in the Dakota region. Flooding conditions in Alabama------ anyway read it ,, it is very enlightening.
Here sitting on the panhandle region sw, we haven't seen the mid 90's yet. Few days of complete sunshine, very odd for us. We should be well done with corn planting a month ago, hot days should be finishing the wheat crop, and corn should be racing to tassel in 3 weeks(ahead of the 4 th of July), instead of the ankle deep yellow corn we have... just this week beginning to find fertilizer and green up---the best of it. The rest is very small. Today the clouds controlled the sun until nearly 1 pm--well make 90 degrees today for a little while and tomorrow then back into the low 80's. nearly 20 degrees below normal for mid June.
point is why do we believe usda information that is based on nothing. Like the chart up above.....
Notice how the first crop conditions data was three weeks behind with 5/31 being the first rating.... and began at 76% good to excellent.... that does not seem plausible ...... excellent corn would have been planted 4 weeks earlier--it is beginning the contest with a handicap.
In every other year corn ratings stayed the same until at least the 4th week of rating.... we would like to think that might be while the growing point is still under ground. Somehow I don't think growing point ever becomes a part of the process.
It is probably all just "looking busy in the beltway" job justification nonsense data. ..................... bad part is publishers will decide those farms in the article lied to them and usda never does. Like CDC never does?
Also Notice how 2020 august ratings got manipulated to represent reality after the fact......
