The USDA overnight released its first assessment of progress in the 2026 US winter wheat harvest.
Investors had expected a 20% figure, according to a Reuters poll.
| State | Planting progress (%) |
Change on week | Change on year | Difference from 5-year average |
| Arkansas | 60 | 25 | 16 | 16 |
| California | 20 | 10 | -7 | -1 |
| Colorado | – | – | – | – |
| Idaho | – | – | – | – |
| Illinois | 20 | 16 | 19 | 9 |
| Indiana | – | – | – | – |
| Kansas | 28 | 23 | 25 | 20 |
| Michigan | – | – | – | – |
| Missouri | 29 | 15 | 18 | 11 |
| Montana | – | – | – | – |
| Nebraska | – | – | – | – |
| North Carolina | 52 | 25 | 17 | 16 |
| Ohio | – | – | – | – |
| Oklahoma | 73 | 29 | 47 | 35 |
| Oregon | – | – | – | – |
| South Dakota | – | – | – | – |
| Texas | 75 | 40 | 21 | 24 |
| Washington | – | – | – | – |
| 18 States | 25 | 14 | 16 | 12 |
