HRW CCI rating improves, SRW crop slips

HRW improvement was driven by gains in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas.

green wheat field by Lindsey Pound
green wheat field by Lindsey Pound
(Lindsey Pound)

USDA rated the winter wheat crop 49% “good” to “excellent” and 15% “poor” to “very poor.” On the weighted Pro Farmer Crop Condition Index (0 to 500-point scale, with 500 being perfect), the HRW crop improved 10.2 points to 330.4. The SRW CCI rating slipped 0.2 point to 371.3. The HRW crop is now 9.5 points above year-ago, while the SRW CCI rating is 2.9 points below last year on this date.

Pro Farmer Crop Condition Index for HRW Wheat

This week

Last week

Last year

Kansas (33.53%*)

114.99

112.98

114.06

Oklahoma (10.93%)

34.98

33.34

42.65

Texas (8.79%)

28.73

25.39

25.49

Colorado (7.62%)

27.12

25.22

23.07

Nebraska (4.94%)

15.13

16.12

16.21

S. Dakota (5.22%)

15.41

15.67

15.54

Montana (10.53%)

33.08

32.45

32.74

HRW total

330.35

320.20

320.87

* denotes percentage of total national HRW crop production.


Pro Farmer Crop Condition Index for SRW Wheat

This week

Last week

Last year

Missouri (12.56%*)

46.97

47.10

34.99

Illinois (21.09%)

78.25

78.89

62.11

Ohio (15.84%)

57.80

58.28

57.45

Arkansas (2.71%)

9.23

9.04

8.75

Indiana (8.77%)

32.26

32.18

27.27

N. Carolina (8.67%)

31.38

31.81

28.03

Michigan (13.90%)

54.21

52.96

47.40

SRW total

371.25

371.42

374.16

* denotes percentage of total national SRW crop production.