It’s a field-by-field assessment, and I recommend that growers dig in fields to better assess soil moisture and depth.

Many of those wheat fields also had a lack of insulating snow ... third of the winter wheat was rated poor to very poor, with Nebraska and South Dakota in the epic center of the Northern Plains ...

Winter wheat conditions declined across central and southern portions of the production area, except in Texas. In the Northern Plains, conditions improved in South Dakota, where drought conditions ...