date:Mar 20, 2013
eclines of these lowest-rated categories compared with a week earlier. In Kansas, a total of 29% of the 2013 crop was rated poor to very poor in the latest week, a decline from 32% in the previous week. Texas saw 44% of its crop rated poor to very poor, the same as the previous week. Oklahoma saw a decline in poor-to-very-poor wheat conditions in the latest week to 37%, down from 41% the prior week.
Soil moisture levels remained a concern in all three states, each one reporting less than 5% sur