Wheat Crop Progress

Wheat Crop Progress

Overall the winter wheat crop condition across the nation is 59 percent good to excellent compared of the five year average of 42 percent good to excellent. USDA Meteorologist Brad Rippey says winter wheat ratings have improved thanks to the recent moisture. For example in Colorado

Rippey: "Very poor to poor ratings improving from 16 to 14 percent. Kansas improving from 12 to 11 percent."

As far as winter wheat conditions in Washington 83 percent is rated good to excellent, Idaho's winter wheat is 88 percent rated good to excellent and Oregon is 66 percent good to excellent.

Rippey: "Winter wheat heading numbers, we continue to see progress at or mostly ahead of average 26 percent of the 2016 crop has now headed — 24 percent is the five-year average — 25 percent last year. We see heading in all but the northern production areas. Even there we see some unusually early heading in the Northwest. Very warm week last week in the Northwest pushing that crop to 5 percent headed in Washington state, and 3 percent headed in Idaho. Typically by this time in April, we don't see any heading in the Northwest."

Spring Wheat planting progress in Idaho is 65 percent of the acreage has been planted compared to the five year average of 70 percent and 14 percent has emerged — which is 15 percent behind the five year average. In Washington 72 percent of the spring wheat acres have been planted which is ahead of the five-year average of 67 percent and 41 percent of Washington's spring wheat has emerged, which is 10 percent ahead of the five-year average.

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