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US winter wheat harvest progress for major growing states, July 5

Markets Extra06 Jul 2020by Markets Extra

Agrimoney crunches weekly USDA winter wheat harvest progress data for the week to June 28.

The figure compared with the 56% number that, according to a Reuters survey, investors had expected.

Data for the previous week are available by clicking here.

US winter wheat harvest progress, July 5
	Harvest completed	Change on week	Change on year	Difference from 5-year average
Arkansas	95%	+6	-1	-3
California	75%	+10	-1	-2
Colorado	36%	+21	+29	+16
Idaho	1%	-	-	0
Illinois	82%	+19	+16	+1
Indiana	48%	+26	+6	-9
Kansas	80%	+33	+28	+4
Michigan	-	-	-	-
Missouri	86%	+20	+15	+2
Montana	-	-	-	-
Nebraska	16%	+15	+15	-3
North Carolina	87%	+14	+3	-6
Ohio	51%	+50	+28	+10
Oklahoma	100%	+5	+12	+5
Oregon	2%	+1	+1	-2
South Dakota	-	-	-	-
Texas	98%	+2	+9	+8
Washington	1%	-	-	-1
*National reading*	56%	+15	+14	+1
Sources: USDA, Agrimoney. All data in percentage points except harvest completed readings, give in percentages

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