US farmers remained well behind the typical pace for spring wheat sowings, thanks to slow progress in Minnesota and top growing state North Dakota.
Investors had expected a 56% completion figure, according to a Reuters poll.
Details of the data are below.
For last week’s report, click here.
| State | Planting progress (%) |
Change on week | Change on year | Difference from 5-year average |
| Idaho | 90 | +5 | -9 | -2 |
| Minnesota | 11 | +6 | -89 | -79 |
| Montana | 85 | +15 | 0 | +4 |
| North Dakota | 27 | +10 | -66 | -53 |
| South Dakota | 94 | +16 | -5 | +2 |
| Washington | 96 | +5 | -4 | 0 |
| 6 states | 49 | +10 | -44 | -34 |
| Source: USDA. Planting progress data in percent. Other data in percentage points |
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