South Dakota spring wheat planting at 25%

The pace of spring wheat planting is a little ahead of normal in South Dakota.

USDA’s latest crop progress report says as of Sunday, 25 percent of the crop is planted compared to the five-year average of 22 percent.

Emergence is slightly behind normal at 1 percent.

Oat planting progressed to 27 percent and emergence is at 3 percent.

Most of the winter wheat crop is rated either poor or fair, and dryness continues to be a concern with 60 percent of topsoil moisture and 62 percent of subsoil moisture rated short to very short.

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