(Radio Iowa) The U-S-D-A crop report shows Iowa’s corn crop is rated at 58 percent good to excellent — a slight drop from last week’s 61 percent rating. The soybean condition was also rated at 58 percent good to excellent — down from 60 percent the week before. Iowa Ag Secretary Mike Naig says things could have been a lot worse if not for some rain that helped some of the dry areas.

Things still remain very dry in areas of the state, and overall Naig says we are still behind.

Naig says some farmers are still trying to recover from last year’s derecho damage.

Naig says there’s always added costs as you are rebuilding bins and other things, and that keeps the burden of the storm recovery going into this year. Naig made his comments during a recent interview at the Iowa State Fair.