NE Winter Wheat Forecast Drops 3%
May 9, 2008
Nebraska's winter wheat forecast is down 3% from last year, according to a May 9 USDA Crop Production Report.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture says that, based on May 1 conditions, Nebraska is expected to harvest 81.4 million bushels of winter wheat, down six percent from last year. Average yield is expected to be 44 bu/ac - down a bushel from last year but almost 4 bushels higher than the 10-year Nebraska average.
Nationally, the winter wheat harvest is expected to be 1.78 billion bushels, up 17% from 2007.
| Table 1. Winter Wheat: Area Harvested, Yield, and Production by State and Forecasted May 1, 2008 (USDA May 9, 2008 report) | |||||||
| State |
Harvested
|
Yield
|
Production
|
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|
2007
|
2008
|
2007
|
2008
|
2006
|
2007
|
2008
|
|
|
|
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|
1,000 acres
|
1,000 acres
|
Bushels
|
Bushels
|
1,000 Bushels
|
1,000 Bushels
|
1,000 Bushels
|
|
|
|
|||||||
| Colorado |
2,350
|
2,100
|
40.0
|
32.0
|
39,900
|
94,000
|
67,200
|
| Kansas |
8,600
|
9,400
|
33.0
|
38.0
|
291,200
|
283,800
|
357,200
|
| Montana |
2,190
|
2,600
|
38.0
|
34.0
|
82,560
|
83,220
|
88,400
|
| Nebraska |
1,960
|
1,850
|
43.0
|
44.0
|
61,200
|
84,280
|
81,400
|
| Oklahoma |
3,500
|
4,500
|
28.0
|
33.0
|
81,600
|
98,000
|
148,500
|
| South Dakota |
1,980
|
1,750
|
48.0
|
44.0
|
41,400
|
95,040
|
77,000
|
| Texas |
3,800
|
3,400
|
37.0
|
29.0
|
33,600
|
140,600
|
98,600
|
| Washington |
1,690
|
1,720
|
64.0
|
63.0
|
118,800
|
108,160
|
108,360
|
| U.S. |
35,952
|
40,162
|
42.2
|
44.3
|
1,298,081
|
1,515,989
|
1,777,532
|
|
|
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