tatistics Service, North Dakota Field Office.Though the state did get planted earlier this year compared to last year, Jantzi said, crops such as barley, durum wheat, spring wheat, oats, canola and corn are all behind a five-year average for 2005 to 2009.As of Sunday, barley crops were about 64 percent planted across the state, whereas at this time last year they were only about 26 percent planted