Corn Crop Quality Announced Good

The overall quality of the United States' 2015 corn crop was good, with 94 percent of corn  samples rated at quality grade Number 2 or better in the U.S. Grains Council's newly released  2015/2016 Corn Harvest Quality Report. See the entire report.

According to the corn quality report, the 2015 U.S. crop is entering marketing channels with the following key characteristics:

• Average test weight within the range for Number 1 grade corn, indicating good kernel filling and maturation.
• Low levels of broken corn and foreign material, with 98 percent within the range for Number 2 grade corn, indicating little cleaning will be required.
• Low levels of total damage, with 96.1 percent within the range for U.S. Number 2 grade.
• No observed heat damage.
• Average elevator moisture of 15.7 percent, which will decrease the potential for stress cracking.

100 percent of the corn samples tested below the U.S. Food and Drug Administration action level for mycotoxins.

• Agriculture Businesses in South Dakota Receive $144,000

The corn report is based on 620 yellow commodity corn samples taken from defined areas within 12 of the top corn-producing and exporting states, including Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin.