(Radio Iowa) – The latest U-S-D-A report rates 86 percent of Iowa’s corn crop in good or excellent condition. The analysis covers the past week — through Saturday — and it found 80 percent of soybeans are in good or excellent condition. July has been wetter than normal and 72 percent of topsoil and subsoil moisture readings are considered adequate. Twenty-one percent of Iowa topsoil has surplus moisture according to the report.

Iowa Agriculture Secretary Mike Naig says field crops have benefited from this month’s wet conditions and somewhat milder temperatures, but farmers are now worrying about the heat dome building over the state. Heat waves during this stage of corn kernel and soybean pod development can lead to yield losses.

Iowa farmers have harvested about 35 percent of the oats that were planted this year. Pasture conditions are rated by the U-S-D-A as 79 percent good to excellent and hay conditions are even higher — 86 percent in the good to excellent range.