(USDA) The winter wheat crop began this planting season as a troubled crop, with much of the crop being measured as below average in crop quality, but that may be changing.
USDA meteorologist Brad Rippey says recent moisture is positively influencing the crops condition.
“We did see our wettest November on record across much of the central and southern Great Plains, we saw that reflected in the winter wheat condition…”
Winter wheat was adversely affected by the dryness of the early planting season, with some southern planters outright refusing to seed in the conditions at first; this down tick in crop quality did not bode well for the future wheat market, but with new conditions afoot those prospects could be changing.
