The featured set of charts displays yearly time series of USDA NASS reported corn crop condition reports since 1986 for six selected states in the Midwest. The values shown total the two poorest conditions (poor and very poor) contained within the report. Four years are highlighted for comparison. The black lines present the values for this year and there are very small amounts of poor corn to be found. The drought year of 2012 is also highlighted to show how bad things got in states like Illinois and Missouri. Timely and significant rains have occurred this summer over much of the corn belt, but as shown by Ohio's plotted values, some places have missed out.

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