The featured chart compares the weekly USDA corn crop condition report for six states for each of the past years since 1986. The black line represents the percentage of corn acres rated as either poor or very poor condition for 2014. You can see that for all of these highlighted states, the corn crop is doing very well! Some of the years with poorly rated crops are also highlighted on this chart. Not every year was a bad year for each state. At this point, there is a great deal of optimism that a large corn harvest is on the way but a significant number of heat units are still necessary to reach maturity.

Voting:
Good = 36
Bad = 23
Abstain = 25

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