SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A week of warm, dry weather in South Dakota has advanced the maturity of crops including corn and soybeans.

The Agriculture Department says in its weekly crop report that the favorable weather also helped with winter wheat seeding. Twenty-two percent of the crop is in the ground, compared with 13 percent at the same time last year and 15 percent on average.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture expects South Dakota farmers to produce a record soybean crop, but less corn.

USDA's latest production report forecasts the state's soybean crop at 233 million bushels, up 1 percent from last year. Acres for harvest are down slightly, but average yield is forecast at a record 46 bushels per acre, up 1 bushel from 2014.

The barley harvest is virtually done, at 99 percent complete.

Pasture and range conditions in South Dakota are rated 57 percent good to excellent. Stock water supplies are 77 percent adequate to surplus.

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