date:Apr 24, 2013
21, up from 6% a week earlier and compared with 52% a year ago and 24% as the five-year average for the date. Cold weather and remaining snow cover kept field work at a standstill in the Upper Midwest with the only gains recorded in the Pacific Northwest states. Planting had yet to begin in top-producing North Dakota (15% average progress for the date), or in Minnesota (30% average). Planting was 6% completed in South Dakota (40% average), 6% in Montana (23%), 59% in Idaho (47%) and 71% in Wash