The winter wheat crop harvest is over the halfway mark.

“On July 6 wheat harvest was 53 percent complete nationally, only one point behind the five-year average, but a little behind last year’s 62 percent,” said USDA Meteorologist Brad Rippey.

Those numbers represent improved progress pace after a slow start to the harvest.

Rippey says several states have completed over 90 percent including Arkansas at 98 percent, 91 percent in North Carolina and just reaching the 90 percent mark in Missouri.

“Weather related harvest disruptions have been reported in Southern Plains states such as Texas and Oklahoma,” Rippey says. “We are seeing our harvest moving into our far Northern states. The early stages of harvest taking place in South Dakota with one percent harvested and Washington State now three percent harvested.”

Rippey also presented the final report of 2025 for wheat conditions.

“USDA shows 48 percent of the wheat crop good to excellent and 18 percent poor to very poor,” Rippey said. “Compared to a year ago, actually not that much different, it was 51 percent good to excellent and 15 percent poor to very poor.”

Rippey did say it was worth noting that top wheat producer Kansas had almost a quarter of the crop was rated poor to very poor in this final report. Also several other states had numbers above 20 percent including Texas coming in at 27 percent poor to very poor and Oregon with some late drought issues coming in at 21 percent poor to very poor.