Third Smallest Oat Crop
WASHINGTON - Jan 10/14 - SNS -- The 2013 oat harvest in the United States finished at 65.9 million bushels, up 3% from 2012 but the third lowest production on record, according to the USDA's final production estimates for the 2013 crop.
Yield is estimated at 64.0 bushels per acre, up 2.7 bushels from the previous year.
Harvested area, at 1.03 million acres, is slightly below last year. This is the second lowest acreage harvested for grain on record. Record low acres were planted in California, Georgia, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, and Virginia. Producers harvested record low acreage in Kansas, Idaho, Minnesota, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Wisconsin, and Virginia.
Favorable growing conditions in the Northern Great Plains and the Ohio Valley promoted significant yield increases compared with 2012. Drought conditions in the Southern Great Plains led to a large decline in yield from last year.
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