abandonment

USDA is forecasting production of all wheat for this upcoming marketing year to be up from this past season but only by 83 million bushels, at a bit over 1.7 billion. Wheat growers planted almost 47.5 million acres, but the Midwest drought has been relentless, and USDA now projects growers will only get a crop off of maybe 37 million ...

According to Lance Honig with NASS, nationwide, winter wheat growers put in about 33 million acres, for the first year-over-year acreage increase since 2013. "Our first forecast for harvested area for grain thought, is 24.6 million acres that's up 6 ...