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USDA Trims Size of Oklahoma Wheat Crop to 114.8 Million Bu- Ups Kansas Crop From May Guess

Thu, 11 Jun 2015 05:25:30 CDT

USDA Trims Size of Oklahoma Wheat Crop to 114.8 Million Bu- Ups Kansas Crop From May Guess The June US Department of Agriculture Crop Production Report slightly trimmed the expected size of the 2015 Oklahoma Hard Red Winter Wheat Harvest compared to the May 2015 estimate. The estimate, based on information from June first, predicts 114.8 million bushels will combined and hauled out of the wheat fields in the state of Oklahoma. That compares to 118.9 million bushels estimated in May of this year.


The June report shows one bushel per acre less than the May report- with the expectation that Oklahoma Farmers will harvest an average of 28 bushels per acre- versus the 29 bushel per acre guess a month earlier. USDA continues to expect Oklahoma wheat farmers to harvest 4.1 million acres.


The Texas wheat crop was also reduced from the May estimate. USDA reduced the yield in Texas from 35 bushels per acre to 32 bushels per acre and cut the total production figure from 131.25 million bushels down to 120 million bushels.


In both the Oklahoma and Texas estimates- the size of the 2015 crop is far larger than the drought ravaged 2014 crop- Oklahoma's expected production is up 141% in 2015 versus 2014 and the Texas production expectations are up 77% from a year earlier.


The Kansas Crop increased from the May report to the June release- increasing by 42.5 million bushels- an increase month to month of 15.4%. The 2015 Kansas crop is now expected to come in at 314.5 million bushels, well above the 2014 Kansas production of 246.4 million bushels. The key reason for the May to June increase for the Kansas crop was the jump in bushels per acre from 32 bushels per acre predicted in May to 37 bushels per acre predicted in June.


Several other states saw slight increases in winter wheat production compared to the month earlier estimates- Colorado was up two million bushels, Montana jumped almost seven million bushels and Nebraska improved by three million bushels from the first estimate of the crop season.


Overall, the winter wheat production estimate was two percent higher compared to May- now standing at 1.505 billion bushels- 2 percent from the May 1 forecast and up 9
percent from 2014. Based on June 1 conditions, the United States yield is forecast at 44.5 bushels per acre, up 1 bushel from last month and up 1.9 bushels from last year.


Hard Red Winter production, at 887 million bushels, is up 4 percent from last month. Soft Red Winter, at 414 million bushels, is down less than one percent from the May forecast. White Winter, at 204 million bushels, is up slightly from last month. Of the White Winter production, 12.4 million bushels are Hard White and 191 million bushels are Soft White.   


Click here for the complete Crop Production report based on June first conditions.


On Wednesday afternoon, Radio Oklahoma Ag Network's Leslie Smith talked with Tom Leffler of Leffler Commodities about the impact of the USDA Crop Production report as well as the Wednesday WASDE update. You can hear her conversation with Leffler by clicking on the LISTEN BAR below.





   
   

Leslie Smith talks with Tom Leffler about the USDA Reports from Wednesday
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