When USDA’s weekly crop condition ratings are plugged into the weighted Pro Farmer Crop Condition Index (0 to 500-point scale, with 500 being perfect), the spring wheat crop plunged 14.7 points to just 309.4 points. That’s 64.7 points below the five-year average for the first week of June.
Pro Farmer Crop Condition Index for HRS Wheat | |||
| This week | Last week | Year-ago |
Idaho* (7.15%) | 22.58 | 23.22 | 28.03 |
Minnesota (15.18%) | 53.04 | 54.42 | 61.93 |
Montana (15.24%) | 59.39 | 63.02 | 60.36 |
North Dakota (51.78%) | 146.04 | 151.05 | 200.90 |
South Dakota (5.39%) | 15.84 | 19.29 | 19.79 |
Washington (4.49%) | 11.48 | 12.05 | 17.83 |
HRS total | 309.43 | 324.16 | 391.84 |
* denotes percentage of total national HRS crop production.