{"id":3015,"date":"2023-05-30T16:41:37","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T20:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=3015"},"modified":"2023-05-30T16:41:40","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T20:41:40","slug":"35-of-us-wheat-in-very-poor-shape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/30\/35-of-us-wheat-in-very-poor-shape\/","title":{"rendered":"35% of US wheat in very poor shape"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>JOHN PERKINS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Brownfield Ag Network<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The USDA says warm, dry weather in most of the Midwest allowed farmers to make good corn and soybean planting progress last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As of Sunday, 92% of U.S. corn is planted, compared to the five-year average of 84%, with 72% of the crop emerged, compared to 63% on average. The first corn rating of the year has 69% of the crop in good to excellent condition, 4% less than the first rating for 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>83% of soybeans are planted, compared to 65% on average, and 56% have emerged, compared to the typical rate of 40%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>34% of winter wheat is called good to excellent, 4% higher, with 35% in poor to very poor shape, 5% lower, while 72% of the crop has headed, compared to 73% on average.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHN PERKINS Brownfield Ag Network The USDA says warm, dry weather in most of the Midwest allowed farmers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3016,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-3015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ag","tag-ag"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image0-10-scaled.jpeg?fit=2560%2C1920&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}