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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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