Winter wheat grazing reaches 55%

For the month of February, rainfall totals averaged 1.70 inches throughout the state, with the Southeast district recording the highest precipitation at 4.02 inches and the Panhandle district recording the lowest at 0.33 of an inch, according to USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service, Southern Plains Regional Field Office, Oklahoma.

Topsoil and subsoil moisture conditions were rated mostly adequate to short.

Winter wheat grazed reached 55%, up 12 points from the previous year. Rye grazed reached 30%, unchanged from the previous year. Oats grazed reached 40%, unchanged from the previous year.