In its latest update, the National Meteorological Center reports that 87.2% percent of the winter wheat crop is either the same quality or better than last year at this time based on remote sensing. However, it’s not very clear what the NMC is basing this on.
Traditionally, wheat would be rated by classes. Class 1 was very good, Class 2 was average, and Class 3 was weak. That is how wheat crop conditions have always been reported.
For wheat, there is also a statistical system to determine the cr...