WICHITA (AP) – A new report says the Kansas winter wheat crop continues to develop two to three weeks ahead of normal, with roughly 6 percent of the crop statewide already headed.

Monday’s Kansas Agricultural Statistics report also says that 79-percent of the wheat is now jointed. That compares with 30 percent last year and a five-year average of 32-percent at this point in the season.

Recent rain has helped improve the wheat’s condition. The crop is rated 1 percent very poor, 5- percent poor, 29-percent fair, 52-percent good and 13-percent excellent.

Kansas farmers have also begun planting this season’s corn crop, with about 6 percent in the ground statewide.