Spring Wheat Harvest Crash
WASHINGTON - Jan 12/22 - SNS -- Spring wheat output other than durum ended up at 331 million bushels, down 44% from the 2020 total of 588 million bushels, according to the USDA's final crop report for 2021.
Harvested area totaled 10.2 million acres, down 16% from 2020. The United States yield was estimated at 32.6 bushels per acre, down 16.0 bushel from the record high of 48.6 bushels per acre in 2020. Of the total production, 297 million bushels were Hard Red Spring wheat, down 44% from the 2020 total.
Other Spring Wheat Area Planted and Harvested, Yield, and Production - States and
United States: 2019-2021
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: Area planted : Area harvested
State :-----------------------------------------------------------------------
: 2019 : 2020 : 2021 : 2019 : 2020 : 2021
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: 1,000 acres
:
Idaho ........: 460 510 510 440 495 485
Minnesota ....: 1,450 1,430 1,210 1,400 1,360 1,160
Montana ......: 2,900 3,350 2,900 2,730 3,310 2,180
North Dakota .: 6,700 5,700 5,500 5,950 5,630 5,210
South Dakota .: 640 770 720 590 755 590
Washington ...: 520 550 580 515 545 540
:
United States : 12,670 12,310 11,420 11,625 12,095 10,165
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: Yield per acre : Production
State :-----------------------------------------------------------------------
: 2019 : 2020 : 2021 : 2019 : 2020 : 2021
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: ---------- bushels --------- -------- 1,000 bushels --------
:
Idaho ........: 89.0 91.0 63.0 39,160 45,045 30,555
Minnesota ....: 57.0 53.0 48.0 79,800 72,080 55,680
Montana ......: 37.0 38.0 17.0 101,010 125,780 37,060
North Dakota .: 49.0 49.0 33.5 291,550 275,870 174,535
South Dakota .: 43.0 47.0 29.0 25,370 35,485 17,110
Washington ...: 47.0 61.0 30.0 24,205 33,245 16,200
:
United States : 48.3 48.6 32.6 561,095 587,505 331,140
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