Fourth Smallest U.S. Oat Harvest
WASHINGTON - Sep 30/14 - SNS -- This year's oat harvest in the United States totalled 70.5 million bushels, up 9% from the revised 2013 total but represents the fourth lowest production on record, according to the USDA's latest crop production estimates.
Yield is estimated at 67.8 bushels per acre, up 3.7 bushels from the previous year. Harvested area, at 1.04 million acres, is 3% above last year. This is the third lowest acreage harvested for grain on record. Record low acres were harvested in California, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, and Utah.
Favorable growing conditions in the Northern Great Plains and the Ohio Valley promoted significant yield increases compared with 2013. Drought conditions in Texas led to a large decline in yield from last year. Record high yields are estimated in Alabama, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Virginia. During early spring, planting and emergence of the oat crop was behind the normal pace.
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