Cooler than normal weather late last week didn’t do any damage to spring wheat that had been planted in North Dakota. That’s according to Jim Peterson, Policy and Marketing Director for the North Dakota Wheat Commission. He says the main concern this spring has been the drought.

Last week’s report showed 94 percent of North Dakota’s spring wheat planted. Peterson says he thinks the remaining six percent will get seeded.

He says timely rains will be badly needed during the growing season however to carry the crop through.

Peterson says the later planted wheat even though it was put in in dry dirt will hopefully emerge okay although it will be a couple of weeks past normal planting dates.