wheat acreage

U.S. wheat production for the 2024-2025 marketing year is estimated at 1.971 billion bushels, up 9% year-over-year and the highest level since 2016-2017.  The USDA said this stands in contrast to a long-term downward trend in U.S. wheat production that resulted in declining acreage as farmers switched to other crops like corn and soybeans.     ...

Nearly every year for the past century, or so, U.S. wheat growers have gradually reduced wheat plantings.  For example, growers cut plantings this past year by about a million acres but, perhaps that trend is turning around for 2023.   “...

For the past couple of years, the USDA has reported fewer and fewer wheat acres planted nationwide. Much of the reduction is blamed on low wheat prices. In 2020 all-wheat acreage hit 44.3 million acres, the lowest on record in over 100 years ...

Coming up this Friday, USDA's much awaited report on planted acreage, for which 100,000 farmers or so were surveyed earlier this month. In addition to the acreage numbers, USDA will also focus on stocks.  Lance Honig with the USDA's AG Statistic's Service said farmers were not just asked about acreage, but also about their stocks of grain on farm.  ...

Wheat plantings across the Northwest look to be higher than this time last year.   USDA estimates that 2.23 million acres of wheat have been planted in Washington for 2018, a 2% increase from last year.  Winter wheat planted acres are expected to total 1.70 millio...

Wheat prices are not the only thing that’s dropping according to a USDA report.   USDA Economist Rob Johannson says that acreage for winter wheat has dropped for three straight years and that, “This year we’ll see the lowest winter wheat seedings on record since 1913. We are expecting to see re...