The USDA overnight released its first assessment of progress in the 2026 US winter wheat harvest.
Investors had expected a 54% figure, according to a Reuters poll.
| State | Planting progress (%) |
Change on week | Change on year | Difference from 5-year average |
| Arkansas | 91 | 11 | 4 | 3 |
| California | 60 | 20 | 8 | 11 |
| Colorado | 32 | 19 | 29 | 27 |
| Idaho | – | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Illinois | 64 | 23 | 2 | -5 |
| Indiana | 15 | 10 | -5 | -20 |
| Kansas | 72 | 14 | 24 | 20 |
| Michigan | 1 | 0 | -3 | 0 |
| Missouri | 75 | 16 | 15 | 5 |
| Montana | – | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Nebraska | 5 | n/a | 2 | 0 |
| North Carolina | 86 | 15 | 9 | 9 |
| Ohio | 7 | 4 | -5 | -8 |
| Oklahoma | 98 | 3 | 32 | 17 |
| Oregon | 1 | n/a | 0 | n/a |
| South Dakota | – | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Texas | 82 | 5 | 3 | 2 |
| Washington | – | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| 18 States | 48 | 8 | 14 | 9 |
