Fourth Smallest Oat Harvest
WASHINGTON - Jan 12/15 - SNS -- Last year's U.S. oat harvest was pegged at 69.7 million bushels, up 8% from the 2013 total but represents the fourth lowest production on record, according to the USDA's final crop estimates for 2014.
Yield is estimated at 67.7 bushels per acre, up 3.6 bushels from the previous year. Harvested area, at 1.03 million acres, is 2% above the previous year. This is the fourth lowest acreage harvested for grain on record. Record low acres were harvested in California, 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 2013. Record high yields are estimated in Alabama, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Virginia.
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