USDA Finds Slightly Larger Oklahoma And Kansas Wheat Crops In Final 2016 Crop Survey

 

The US Department of Agriculture Small Grains 2016 Summary saw the Oklahoma wheat crop production nudged up from the August Crop production estimates, with USDA finding more acres harvested while trimming the final yield per acre by a bushel. The 136.5 million bushels of winter wheat produced in Oklahoma in 2016 was the largest total crop since the 155.4 million bushels were raised in 2012. The 2016 crop was a record yield per acre, but slipped from forty bushels an acre to 39 bushels per acre in this final analysis from USDA. The government did find 200,000 more acres of harvested wheat in the state with 3.5 million acres as the final harvested acreage number for the growing season. That was a drop of 300,000 acres from the 2015 crop in harvested area, but the yield thirteen bushels per acre better in 2016 versus 2015 meant that the overall crop was 38% larger in 2016 versus 2015 when total production was 98.8 million bushels. Oklahoma was one of twenty states growing winter wheat that ended up with a record yield in 2016.

 

Uncle Sam also found 100,000 more acres of harvested wheat in Kansas compared to the August report, with 8.2 million acres combined in Kansas this year, with a 57 bushel per acre yield- which was also a yield for the Sunflower state. Total production in Kansas came in for 2016 at 467.4 million bushels total. Kansas and Oklahoma were the top two winter wheat producing states in 2016, followed by Washington, Montana and Colorado.

 

Nationally, winter wheat production for 2016 totaled 1.67 billion bushels, up 22 percent from the revised 2015 total of 1.37 billion bushels. The United States yield, at 55.3 bushels per acre, is up 12.8 bushels from 2015 and represents a new record high. Area harves ted for grain is estimated at 30.2 million acres, down 7 percent from the previous year. Record high yields are estimated in Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Washington, and Wisconsin for 2016.