While the winter wheat crop is still in dormancy, the dry winter is taking its toll on the condition and outlook for the crop. South Dakota Wheat Commission Executive Director Reid Christopherson says the crop has deteriorated over the winter with the below normal precipitation and expanding drought.

This is a concern and he says it could lower the yield potential of the winter wheat crop in the state.

Christopherson says 21-percent of the wheat is also rated poor to very poor and those acres might be destroyed in the spring and planted to another crop.

Christopherson says those abandoned acres will likely go to corn or soybeans, maybe even sunflowers with the multi-year highs in prices.