Friday’s USDA Acreage numbers provided state by state numbers for all of our major crops- here’s a rundown of the Oklahoma stats- showing Oklahoma wheat still the major crop in t he state (no surprise) with cotton and soybeans equal in the number of acres they are growing on in the state this summer. Feed grain crops were planted on fewer acres this year versus last.
Oklahoma winter wheat planted, at 4.35 million acres, is down 4 percent from a year ago. Harvested acreage, at 2.70 million, is up 10 percent from last year’s crop.
Oklahoma upland cotton is estimated at 460 thousand acres, up 10 percent from last year.
Oklahoma soybeans is estimated at 460,000 acers- same as 2023.
Oklahoma corn growers planted 370 thousand acres of corn, down 5 percent from last year. Oklahoma sorghum producers planted 340 thousand acres, down 17 percent from last year.
Here’s a summary of the southern plains acreage numbers for Oklahoma and Texas:
