Winter and spring wheat crop progress
Farm and Ranch June 21, 2011 While the winter wheat harvest in the southern plains is nearing completion the crop is still significantly delayed in the north due to cool, wet weather. That’s according to USDA meteorologist Brad Rippey. Rippey: “90% of the crop headed by June 19th. That is behind the five year average pace of 94% and last year‘s number of 91%, mainly on that slow progress in the north. For example, in Montana just 13% of the crop headed out by June 19th. Five year average pace 48%.” Ninety percent of Oregon’s winter wheat was headed at the start of this week, just five points behind average, but in Idaho heading was at 33 percent compared to 56 percent on average for this time, and in Washington heading at 70 percent is 18 points behind the five year average. The winter wheat harvest nationally is 31 percent complete. Rippey updates the spring wheat situation. Rippey: “Still producers are struggling to plant some acreage of spring wheat in the north. Ninety-one percent planted. They should have been done a long time ago. 100% the five year average. 100 percent last year.” Spring wheat emergence is lagging nationally but most of the crop is up and growing in the PNW. And Rippey says the spring wheat that has emerged is in pretty good shape at 72 percent good to excellent. Last year at this time the rating was 84 percent good to excellent. Nearly all the U.S. corn crop has emerged and is rated 70 percent good to excellent, five points below last year. I’m Bob Hoff and that’s the Northwest Farm and Ranch Report on Northwest Aginfo Net. ? ? ?
