• May 16, 2025 – The May World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates call for an increase in U.S. wheat ending stocks. World wheat ending stocks are about steady with 2024/25. USDA’s winter wheat yield estimate for 2025 is 53.7 bushels per acre, up from 51.7 bushels per acre last year.

• May 9, 2025 – Drought conditions have improved for the Southern Plains over the last 6 weeks. The GEOGLAM global crop monitor highlights dry areas in Europe with parts of the EU-27, Russia, Ukraine, and Turkey in the ‘watch’ category.

• May 5, 2025 – The share of the U.S. winter wheat crop rated good and excellent was up 2% this week while the share rated very poor and poor was down 1%. The crop condition index held steady at 334. The area of the Southern Plains experiencing drought conditions fell this week from 75% to 62%.

• April 25, 2025 – The U.S. winter wheat crop condition index is down this week with a decrease in wheat rated good and excellent and an increase in wheat rated very poor and poor. Drought monitor for the Southern Plains looks a little better this week with more rain in the forecast.

Mark Welch
Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Economist
600 John Kimbrough Blvd
TAMU 2124
College Station, Texas 77843
Tel. (979)845-8011
Fax. (979)845-4906
JMWelch(at)tamu.edu

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