— Crop condition: NASS estimated that 68% of soybeans were in good-to-excellent condition, up 1 percentage point from 67% the previous week and above last year’s rating of 51% good to excellent. “Sixty-six percent of soybeans in Illinois were rated good to excellent, while Iowa was at 76% and Nebraska is at 77% good to excellent,” Mantini said.
WINTER WHEAT
— Harvest progress: Harvest slowed last week, moving ahead 9 percentage points to reach 63% complete nationwide as of Sunday. That was 20 points ahead of last year’s 43% and 11 points ahead of the five-year average pace of 52%. “Kansas’ winter wheat is 92% harvested, and Nebraska is at 28%,” noted DTN Lead Analyst Todd Hultman. “Illinois is at 93% harvested, and Indiana is 84%. Harvest in Montana has not yet started.”
SPRING WHEAT
— Crop development: 59% of spring wheat was headed, 7 percentage points behind last year’s 66% and 1 point behind the five-year average of 60%.
— Crop condition: NASS estimated that 75% of the crop was in good-to-excellent condition nationwide, up 3 percentage points from 72% the previous week. That remains well ahead of last year’s rating of 47% good to excellent. “Minnesota and North Dakota still have the two highest good-to-excellent spring wheat ratings, while the crop in Washington has the lowest rating, at 56%,” Hultman said.
THE WEEK AHEAD IN WEATHER
The remnants of Hurricane Beryl, which made landfall along the Texas coast on Monday, will bring some much-needed rain to dry areas of the Eastern Corn Belt this week, according to DTN Meteorologist Teresa Wells.
“Remnants of Hurricane Beryl will provide a swath of heavy rain from the Southern Delta into the Ohio Valley through Wednesday with some portions of southern Missouri, southern Illinois, and Indiana forecast to receive at least 1-2 inches of rain,” Wells said. “This rainfall should benefit some areas in the southern and Eastern Corn Belt that are in the midst of a drought. In addition to remnants of Beryl moving through the Central and Eastern U.S., below-average temperatures will linger across much of the Plains and Mississippi Valley through late this week.
“Temperatures will start to trend warmer in the Northern Plains late this week with the warmth expected to expand across much of the north-central U.S. by the upcoming weekend as high temperatures get closer to the 80s and low 90s Fahrenheit. Periodic, scattered rain showers and storms will linger in the Midwest and Plains for the second half of this week and this upcoming weekend. However, most of the precipitation will favor the Eastern and Southern Plains and the Central Mississippi Valley.”
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Editor’s Note: How are your crops looking? Are they better, worse or right on track with USDA NASS’ observations this week? Send us your comments, and we’ll add them to the Crop Progress report story. You can email comments to Anthony.greder@dtn.com or direct message him on social platform X @AGrederDTN. Please include the location of where you farm.
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To view weekly crop progress reports issued by National Ag Statistics Service offices in individual states, visit http://www.nass.usda.gov/…. Look for the U.S. map in the “Find Data and Reports by” section and choose the state you wish to view in the drop-down menu. Then look for that state’s “Crop Progress & Condition” report.
National Crop Progress Summary This Last Last 5-Year Week Week Year Avg. Corn Silking 24 11 18 14 Corn Dough 3 NA 2 2 Soybeans Blooming 34 20 35 28 Soybeans Setting Pods 9 3 8 5 Winter Wheat Harvested 63 54 43 52 Spring Wheat Headed 59 38 66 60 Cotton Squaring 52 43 51 50 Cotton Setting Bolls 19 11 15 15 Sorghum Headed 23 19 24 24 Sorghum Coloring 13 12 14 14 Oats Headed 83 74 84 82 Barley Headed 56 38 56 59 Rice Headed 31 18 27 20
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National Crop Condition Summary (VP=Very Poor; P=Poor; F=Fair; G=Good; E=Excellent) This Week Last Week Last Year VP P F G E VP P F G E VP P F G E Corn 3 6 23 52 16 3 6 24 52 15 4 10 31 45 10 Soybeans 2 6 24 55 13 2 6 25 55 12 4 11 34 44 7 Spring Wheat 1 3 21 65 10 1 3 24 61 11 4 12 37 45 2 Sorghum 3 7 31 46 13 3 5 34 50 8 3 7 35 47 8 Cotton 10 13 32 37 8 8 9 33 44 6 9 16 27 41 7 Rice 1 2 16 64 17 1 2 15 67 15 1 3 20 61 15 Oat 6 5 22 56 11 6 5 22 57 10 6 9 38 43 4 Barley – 3 27 64 6 1 4 31 60 4 2 7 39 47 5
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