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Crop Progress Report May 22, 2013

Good progress was made planting the spring wheat crop last week due to warm, dry conditions. USDA NASS reports that 67 percent of the U.S. spring wheat crop has been planted. Significant progress was made in Minnesota which went from 19 to 71 percent complete. Planting in South Dakota is 91 percent complete, followed by Montana at 79 percent and North Dakota at 50 percent. Last year at this time nearly all of the crop had been planted, and on average 76 percent has been planted by the third week in May. It is likely that minimal planting progress will be made this week as precipitation fell across a large chunk of the spring wheat area over the weekend and early this week. Some areas of North Dakota received up to five or six inches.

Emergence of the U.S. spring wheat crop is at 22 percent, compared to 49 percent on average and 82 percent last year.

Planting of the North Dakota durum crop progressed more than 20 percentage points last week to reach 35 percent, still behind the average of 52 percent and last year's pace of 91 percent. About 5 percent of the crop has emerged. In Montana, 39 percent has been planted and only about one percent has emerged. Rainfall will likely delay planting progress this week.

Percent Planted and Emerged by State
	5/20/2013	5/12/2013	5/20/2012	5 Year Avg.
ND Spring - planted	50	26	98	67
ND Spring - emerged	10	1	87	42
ND Durum - planted	35	11	91	52
ND Durum - emerged	5	0	69	28
Minnesota - planted	71	19	100	80
Minnesota - emerged	7	0	99	57
Montana - planted	79	57	95	78
Montana - emerged	19	5	59	42
South Dakota - planted	91	76	100	94
South Dakota - emerged	53	20	99	74
U.S. - planted	67	43	98	76
U.S. - emerged	22	10	82	49

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