date:May 07, 2014
(64%).
Conditions were mixed but mostly better in the soft red winter wheat states with good to excellent ratings improving to 64% in Arkansas (63% a week earlier), 63% in Indiana (62%), 50% in Ohio (49%) and 46% in Missouri (43%), while slipping in Illinois to 60% (62%) and North Carolina to 69% (70%) and holding steady in Michigan at 42%.
Winter wheat headed in the 18 major states advanced to 29% as of May 4 from 18% a week earlier and compared with 19% a year ago and 35% as the recent five-