date:May 15, 2013
with wheat in most hard red winter states still mostly rated poor to very poor and wheat in most soft winter states rated mostly good to excellent. Overall, winter wheat was rated 32% good to excellent, unchanged from a week earlier but well below 60% last year, and 39% poor to very poor, also unchanged for the week but well above 14% a year earlier.
Winter wheat headed by May 12 was at 29% in the 18 major states, also well behind 73% a year ago and 51% as the 2008-12 average for the date.