prospective plantings

A summary of the Pacific Northwest Prospective Plantings Report from the USDA for 2024.

Lance Honig with NASS said they are preparing for the time of year when USDA conducts their massive annual survey about a 100,000 farmers asking producers how many acres of what crops they've planted. "Or in many cases, especially this year in certain parts of the country, how many acres have you planted and still intend to plant ...

The USDA's prospective plantings report shows a lot of things going on in the wheat world. In the case of winter wheat, just not really prospective plantings at all, since that crop has been in the ground since last fall. But until this last year winter wheat seedings have been declining pretty much every year for decades; down to record lows ...

Producers intend to plant an estimated 91.1 million acres of corn in 2021, up less than 1% from last year, according to the Prospective Plantings report released by NASS. Planted acreage intentions for corn are up or unchanged in 24 of the 48 estimating states ...

On March 31st, USDA will release the results of its survey of producers planting intentions.  Surveys are being mailed to about 80,000 producers as we speak and by the middle of the week they should be showing up in mailboxes.   The USDA's Lance Honig said if you get one of these perspective plating surveys please answer it within a week or so.  He added each one...

Records, of both the good and bad variety, were the highlights of the USDA’s prospective plantings report that was released Friday.   Wheat acreage will go down to levels unseen since USDA began keeping records in the early 1900s, dropping eight percent compared to last year. Corn is a...