Corn and soybeans remain ahead of growing progress as we hear in this weekly crop report.

Corn silking is ahead of last year's pace and the five-year average says State Crop Statistician Mark Schluessner.

Soybeans are setting pods ahead of the five year average while Schluessner updates the condition of the crop.

Conditions varied across the state but Schluessner points out it was overall a cooler and wet week in Illinois.

Winter wheat harvest is ahead of last year's pace and the five-year average at 93 percent complete. Schuluessner says pasture conditions improved significantly. 

Schluessner says NAS will publish the monthly crop production report this Friday. It will include updates of yield forecasts for wheat and oats across the country.