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Wheat Planting Slowly Progresses Across Region
USAgNet - 05/24/2017

A week of cooler temperatures, with scattered rainfall across the Hard Red Spring wheat region, kept the overall weekly planting progress slower than the previous week, but completion is still ahead of average for most areas. As of Sunday, 90 percent of the expected acres were planted, ahead of the five-year average of 84 percent, but still slightly behind the 2016 level of 94 percent. Planting is essentially completed in South Dakota and Minnesota with about 12 to 15 percent of the crop yet to be planted in Montana and North Dakota. These areas are in the northern parts of each state where planting was delayed due to wetter soil conditions in April and early May.

Emergence of the crop is pegged at 62 percent nationally, right near the 5-year average, but still gapping the 2016 level of 75 percent. Emergence ranges from 95 percent in South Dakota, to 75 percent in Minnesota to roughly 50 percent in both Montana and North Dakota. Reported conditions of the emerged crop are of good initial growth and stands, but a majority of the region would benefit from additional rainfall. Eastern parts of the region did pick up more notable rainfall this past week, but a wide swath in the central part of North Dakota, and the southwest part of the state are showing moderate drought conditions according to short-term drought maps. Condition ratings of the emerged crop will likely become available in the next weekly crop progress report.

Durum planting has reached the three-fourths completion mark in Montana, and is estimated to be 72 percent completed in North Dakota. In both states this is at or slightly ahead of the 5-year average, but remains behind the 2016 level. Emergence of the crop is pegged at 36 percent in North Dakota and 21 percent in Montana. This diverges from the planting pace in both states due to the fact that all of Montana's durum acres are across northern areas where planting began later, and North Dakota has a notable durum area in the southwest part of the state. Much of the durum region would benefit from additional rainfall with some areas becoming critically dry.


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