USDA’s weekly Crop Progress and Condition report showed winter wheat conditions improve significantly from last week. State-level breakdowns of the Pro Farmer Crop Condition Index, which compresses the USDA’s weekly crop progress report into a single, weighted, easy-to-track number that’s widely used to monitor the health and potential of U.S. crops during the growing season and more details around USDA ratings, are below. We also recap the soybean growing season in data from this year’s Crop Progress reports.
USDA placed its estimates for winter wheat conditions at 16% very poor to poor, 35% fair, and 49% good to excellent. The average analyst expected good to excellent ratings to come in at 46%, compared to 44% last week, though moisture in the Plains looked to help the crop more than expected. The crop condition index in HRW was up a substantial 11.29 points to 337.44 this week, with Kansas seeing the biggest gain. The crop condition index in SRW was 372.51, increasing 5.06 points from last week.
| Pro Farmer Crop Condition Index for HRW Wheat | |||
| This week | Last week | Last year | |
| Kansas (39.35%*) | 134.19 | 130.26 | N/A |
| Oklahoma (13.12%) | 40.80 | 39.36 | N/A |
| Texas (11.2%) | 35.94 | 33.14 | N/A |
| Colorado (9.49%) | 32.56 | 31.42 | N/A |
| Nebraska (5.64%) | 19.74 | 19.63 | N/A |
| S. Dakota (5.10%) | 16.63 | 15.91 | N/A |
| Montana (12.73%) | 46.22 | 45.46 | N/A |
| HRW total | 337.44 | 326.15 | N/A |
| Pro Farmer Crop Condition Index for SRW Wheat | |||
| This week | Last week | Last year | |
| Missouri (10.05%*) | 38.58 | 38.68 | N/A |
| Illinois (16.54%) | 59.56 | 59.23 | N/A |
| Ohio (12.13%) | 47.19 | 45.61 | N/A |
| Arkansas (1.58%) | 4.97 | 4.94 | N/A |
| Indiana (6.42%) | 23.22 | 23.67 | N/A |
| N. Carolina (5.50%) | 20.83 | 19.68 | N/A |
| Michigan (10.75%) | 40.20 | 39.55 | N/A |
| SRW total | 372.51 | 367.45 | N/A |
A look back on this year’s soybean progress
With soybean harvest now at 92% complete as of November 8, the 2026/27 season is nearly complete. A review of the crop progress survey shows that the growing season got off to a swift pace. U.S. planting was as high as 14 percentage points above the five-year average at one point this spring, propelled by rapid progress in the southern U.S. Progress returned to a near normal pace during the middle of the growing season, but still saw each stage of plant development measured by the agency remain above the five-year average at the national level until early October.
At that point, soybeans dropping leaves had slowed significantly and were level with the five-year average on September 27. The slowing progress was followed by heavy rains that led to harvest disruptions in the Midwest, with U.S. harvest falling behind the five-year average by eight percentage points in early October. Harvest resumed after fields dried down, though the deficit between the 2026 pace and recent averages remained until the end of the month.
