Planting progress

A look at the planting progress for some very important crops to Idaho farmers. Sugar beets, spring wheat and barley. Here's USDA meteorologist Brad Rippey. Speaker 2: Looking at the national picture, it doesn't look too bad because Idaho is counteracting some of the delays in the East. 12% of the intended U.S. sugar beet acreage planted by April 19th. Five year average is 18% last year at this time, 20%. But Idaho is dominating that with about two thirds 66% of the sugar beet acreage planted there by the 19th of April, ahead of the five year average of 56%. Spring wheat and barley numbers. Everything is tracking along pretty well, although we do have some slower planting progress in some of the eastern areas, where it's either a bit wet or waiting for soils to warm up to an appropriate level for planting. 12% of the spring wheat planted nationally, equal to the five year average, a little behind last year's 16%, and on the barley side, 24% planted ahead of the five year average of 20%, but equal to last year's 24% in both cases. Washington state leads the way in planting progress. 65% of the spring wheat and 53% of the barley planted in Washington state. And then in terms of emergence overall, we see pretty much on par with schedule or a little ahead of schedule due to that northwestern early planting and emergence. 2% of the spring wheat emerged on April 19th nationally, equal to both last year and the five year average, and 6% of the barley emerged ahead of the five year average of 2%.