U.S. Winter Wheat Crop Fell 7% in 2013
WASHINGTON - Jan 10/14 - SNS -- The 2013 U.S. winter wheat production totaled 1.53 billion bushels, down 7% from the previous year, according to the USDA's final production estimates for the 2013 crop.
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.
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