Oat Area Inches Up 1%
WASHINGTON - Jun 30/14 - SNS -- Area seeded to oats for the 2014 crop year is estimated at 3.03 million acres, up less than 1% from 2013, according to the USDA's seeded area report for 2014.
This represents the fourth-lowest United States planted area on record. Record low planted acreage is estimated in California, Montana, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Wyoming, and Virginia. Growers expect to harvest 1.15 million acres, up 12% from last year but the fourth lowest harvested acreage on record. Record low harvested acreage is expected in California and Montana.
Oat seeding was well underway by April 13 with 9% of the Nation's crop sown. By May 11, fifty-six% of the crop was seeded, 23 percentage points behind the 5-year average. Nationally, oat emergence also followed a slower than normal pace. As of June 1, heading was running behind normal in most of the major oat-producing States. As of June 22, sixty-four% of the crop was rated in good to excellent condition compared with 57% at the same time last year.
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