Matt Noltemeyer

6 days ago | bakingbusiness.com | Matt Noltemeyer

OKLAHOMA CITY —Estimates resulting from a recent crop tour suggest Oklahoma winter wheat production in 2025 will be down from 2024. Farmers and others in the wheat value chain in the nation’s third-largest winter wheat state were relieved that April and May rains threw a lifeline to a crop that had been heavily stressed by drought.

2 weeks ago | world-grain.com | Matt Noltemeyer

MANHATTAN, KANSAS, US — While late April rains weren’t as widespread as some hard winter wheat farmers hoped, recent precipitation set up the central Kansas crop for good yields and offered a lifeline to the drought-stressed western Kansas crop. The dose of much needed rain improved crop conditions by April 27 in Kansas and across the primary production region, but helped pressure wheat futures to contract lows.

3 weeks ago | bakingbusiness.com | Matt Noltemeyer

MANDAN, ND. — Producers in the Northern Plains are seeding spring wheat ahead of the typical pace thanks to good fieldwork weather and are hoping Mother Nature offers additional precipitation to get the crop started. “In general, planting is ahead of normal,” said Erica Olson, market development and research manager with the North Dakota Wheat Commission. “We did not get a ton of snow this winter. March was a bit warmer than usual, so that set us up for early planting season.

3 weeks ago | world-grain.com | Matt Noltemeyer

KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, US — Weekend rains April 19-20 brought some relief to dry hard red winter wheat fields in Kansas and Oklahoma, though potential improvement was not yet apparent in the latest crop conditions report. 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 recently eased from 100%, and in Montana.

3 weeks ago | bakingbusiness.com | Matt Noltemeyer

KANSAS CITY — Data from the US Department of Agriculture’s March 31 Prospective Plantings report indicated more acres planted to corn and fewer acres to wheat and soybeans in 2025. In markets, the projections were quickly overshadowed by uncertainty and ever-changing US tariffs on nearly all imported goods, including commodities, plus retaliatory tariffs imposed by several countries on imports of US goods and US port fees on Chinese-made vessels.