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38% of Ohio corn, 33% of soybeans are good to excellent

Warm and dry conditions allowed fieldwork in Ohio last week.

According to the USDA, corn and soybean conditions improved slightly.

Corn is 38 percent good to excellent.

Soybeans are 95 percent planted and 33 percent good to excellent.

Farmers were able to make wheat harvest progress. Winter wheat is 95 percent mature and 64 percent harvested.

Lance Honig with the National Ag Statistics Service told Brownfield recently the planted percentage each week gives an indication of how far along in the planting progress farmers are on a weekly basis.