The 4th of July holiday may have been exactly what the commodity market needed. Corn had started to slide from its peak in the low-to-mid seven dollar range a couple weeks ago, but this past Thursday it took a steep fall, with some prices finding the upper five dollar range for the first time in quite a while. John Jenson, an agriculture banker with Iowa State Savings, says that this is in part because of a new crop report that said there may have been more acres of corn planted than originally thought. Jenson says the holiday weekend should let the market stabilize. He recommends that anyone who was planning on selling corn they had on hand to wait until the latter part of this week. Jenson adds that though there are individual areas across the county that may be water-stressed, overall the corn crop is looking pretty good, and that the heat at the end of this past week helped out.