Corn Crop Conditions
Corn Crop Conditions is a macro theme tracked by Themic. US corn crop-condition deterioration: the weekly tracker (Agricultural Economics, Week 30) shows the national good/excellent rating down 4pts to 63% and poor/very-poor up 3pts to 12% — the weakest summer reading. As of 2026-07-28, its status is emerging with low conviction.
Thesis
US corn crop-condition deterioration: the weekly tracker (Agricultural Economics, Week 30) shows the national good/excellent rating down 4pts to 63% and poor/very-poor up 3pts to 12% — the weakest summer reading. The materially new signal is PATTERN: unlike the prior three weeks' clean geographic split, nearly every tracked state moved the same direction, raising downside risk to national yield/production vs the stable expectation of matching last year's crop. Bears on ZC (broad condition deterioration = yield-risk / price-supportive read); secondary ZW substitution channel.
Development timeline
- Sources: independent channels