Smaller Winter Wheat Harvest
WASHINGTON - Sep 30/13 - SNS -- This year's U.S. winter wheat harvest finished at 1.53 billion bushels, down 7% from the previous year, according to the latest USDA small grains production estimates.
The United States yield, at 47.4 bushels per acre, is up slightly from 2012 and represents the second highest yield on record, 0.4 bushel below 1999. Area harvested for grain is estimated at 32.4 million acres, down 7% from the previous year.
Planted acres were up from 2012 in most of the major Hard Red Winter (HRW) growing States. Particularly large acreage increases were experienced in Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas. Conversely, Montana and North Dakota had large decreases in planted acres from the previous year. Harvested acres were down substantially across the HRW region, with large decreases in Colorado, the Dakotas, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas. A record high yield is estimated in New Mexico. Nationally, HRW production totaled 744 million bushels, down 26% from 2012. Record high production is estimated in Nevada, up 17% from last year.
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