winter wheat

Meteorologist Brad Rippey said when it comes to the Spring Wheat crop, the USDA continues to report a record slow planting pace. As of Sunday June 5th, only 82% of the crop has been planted; the five year average is 97%. Some locations, especially in the upper Midwest are well off those numbers ...

According to USDA meteorologist Brad Rippey, spring wheat growers nationwide got out of the basement last week when it comes to planting. Noting, growers got 24% of the crop planted, meaning 73% of the crop is now in the ground, with 42% of the crop emerged ...

Are we going to run out of wheat over the next year? One expert says, "no". Even though shipments of wheat from Ukraine are nearly non-existent right now, and the U.S. winter wheat crop is struggling. "We're not gonna run out of wheat, people will be able to buy wheat, but it's gonna come at a pretty high price." ...

The news continues to be challenging for wheat growers nationally. "Spring wheat planting is going along at a record slow pace for the 21st century." USDA meteorologist Brad Rippey noted the national planting number had not hit 50% by Sunday, March 22 ...

USDA is forecasting production of all wheat for this upcoming marketing year to be up from this past season but only by 83 million bushels, at a bit over 1.7 billion. Wheat growers planted almost 47.5 million acres, but the Midwest drought has been relentless, and USDA now projects growers will only get a crop off of maybe 37 million ...

The condition of the national winter wheat crop continues to drop. “ 27% good to excellent, 41% very poor to poor," noted USDA meteorologist Brad Rippey. "A week ago we were sitting at 29% and 39% respectively.” Rippey noted over the past week, winter wheat conditions improved slightly in Montana and Colorado, but many of the other Plains states saw either steady or declining conditions

While the national trend is for fewer winter acres this year, the Pacific Northwest appears to be bucking that trend. Based on May 1st conditions, production of winter wheat in Idaho was forecast at 66.4 million bushels, up 46% from 2021 ...

According to NASS, American farmers are expected to produce 1.17 billion bushels of winter wheat this year. The forecast, the first for winter wheat production in 2022, calls for an 8% drop from 2021. As of May 1st, the U.S. yield is expected to average 47 ...

For the beleaguered winter wheat crop in some of the southern drought areas, "It's quickly becoming the point of no return," according to USDA meteorologist Brad Rippey. He added the current crop raitings are just terrible for this time of year ...

We've been talking for some time now about the struggles before the nation's winter wheat crop. USDA meteorologist Brad Rippey said the numbers from April 11 show that, 36% of the nation's Winter wheat is rated at poor to very poor condition ...