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First National Weekly Crop Summary of Season Released- Winter Wheat Crop Better Than in 2014
Mon, 06 Apr 2015 20:52:52 CDT
The first National Weekly Crop Summary of the 2015 growing season was released on Monday afternoon- and the first national planting stats of the season are available for Cotton and Grain Sorghum. For both crops, planting is behind the five year average. For the cotton planting season, there is a total of two percent of the US crop that has been planted thus far in the 15 major cotton growing states- versus the five year average for this date of six percent planted.
Thirty two percent of the expected acreage that will be planted this year in Arizona has now been planted- California acres are now ten percent planted and Texas has just barely started in the far southern tip of the state, with one percent now planted- that compares to ten percent normally planted in Texas by this date.
The national grain sorghum planted stats shows nine percent of the crop now planted nationally- versus fifteen percent normally planted by this date. That includes 23 percent planted in Texas (again down in south Texas) versus 40% planted by this date. Some Oklahoma farmers have gotten a very early start on grain sorghum planting- with one percent planted to date- versus non planted as of this week normally.
As far as the winter wheat crop is concerned- the total winter wheat crop in the 18 major producing states shows 44% of the crop in good to excellent condition (nine percent better than a year ago, 40% fair and 16% poor to very poor.
Click here for the complete National Crop Progress Report
Looking at the three key hard red winter winter wheat states of Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas- the Oklahoma wheat crop slips one percentage point from a week ago at 43% good to excellent shape versus 44% a week ago- while we are just getting by when it comes to moisture for this year's crop- consider where we were a year ago by this date when we had gone with virtually no moisture all the way back to the fall months right after planting- the 2014 winter wheat crop in Oklahoma had none of the crop rated excellent and 15% rated good, 37% fair and 48% rated poor to very poor.
Click here for the complete Oklahoma report for this week.
For the Kansas wheat crop- there is more concern than in Oklahoma right now as the crop only shows 33% in good to excellent condition, 44% fair and 23% poor to very poor. The 2015 Kansas crop is not in much different shape in the first week of April as the 2014 wheat crop was- the 2014 ratings show 29% good to excellent, 44% fair and 27% poor to very poor.
Click here for the current Kansas Weekly Crop Weather Update.
Finally, the Texas wheat crop has stats that show conditions looking better than in either Oklahoma or Kansas- The texas 2015 wheat crop is 54% in good to excellent condition, 35% in fair shape and only 11% in poor to very poor condition. The 2015 Wheat Crop is in FAR BETTER shape than the crop of 2014 was- only 13% was rated good to excellent last year at this point, 24% was rated fair and the great majority of the crop- 63%- was in poor to very poor condition.
Click here for the latest Crop Weather report for Texas.
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