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3 of 17 desks have not been read in over 48 hours, and 2 more have not finished a read in over 14 days. Their pages say when each was last read. Anything those desks show as upcoming or underway may have changed — check the source before relying on it.

Crop and pasture condition

Each week during the growing season, the U.S. Department of Agriculture rates South Dakota's major crops and pastureland on a five-point scale, as a share of acreage. Each article below is one commodity for one week, with the percentages exactly as USDA published them.

605Buzz does not add these figures together, compare a week with the one before it, or describe a rating as an improvement or a decline. The rating is the agency's; what it means for a given operation is not something a public record states.

Last successful read of every source behind this page, to the hour: Oct. 23, 2026, 6 a.m. MDT / 7 a.m. CDT.

144 ratings published across 6 commodities. Ingest run 993 recorded that it read the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service's Quick Stats service in full on Oct. 23, 2026 — every record the source served that run is published here. That describes one fetch on one day. It is not a statement that the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service's Quick Stats service is itself complete, and nothing has been checked since, so a listing added or withdrawn after that run is not reflected above.

Source: USDA NASS Quick Stats . This product uses the NASS API but is not endorsed or certified by NASS.