WASHINGTON - Sep 30/14 - SNS -- Rye production for 2014 is estimated at 7.19 million bushels, down 6% from the revised 2013 total, according to the USDA's latest crop production estimates.
Harvested area totaled 258,000 acres, down 20,000 acres from 2013. The United States yield, at 27.9 bushels per acre, is up 0.5 bushel from the previous year. Drier weather conditions in the Southern Great Plains and the Southeast led to decreases in harvested acres from a year earlier.
Rye Area Planted and Harvested, Yield, and Production - States and United States: 2012-2014 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- : Area planted 1/ : Area harvested State :----------------------------------------------------------------- : 2012 : 2013 : 2014 : 2012 : 2013 : 2014 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- : 1,000 acres : Georgia ........: 230 190 170 25 40 20 Oklahoma .......: 250 260 240 60 80 55 : Other States 2/ : 820 1,001 1,024 163 158 183 : United States ..: 1,300 1,451 1,434 248 278 258 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- : Yield : Production State :----------------------------------------------------------------- : 2012 : 2013 : 2014 : 2012 : 2013 : 2014 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- : --------- bushels -------- ------ 1,000 bushels ------ : Georgia ........: 22.0 27.0 27.0 550 1,080 540 Oklahoma .......: 21.0 20.0 9.0 1,260 1,600 495 : Other States 2/ : 31.5 31.3 33.6 5,134 4,946 6,154 : United States ..: 28.0 27.4 27.9 6,944 7,626 7,189 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1/ Includes area planted in preceding fall. 2/ Other States include Illinois, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, and Wisconsin.
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