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Kansas Winter Wheat Forecast Up 18 Percent, Hay Stocks Down 36
Kansas Ag Connection - 05/13/2021

Based on May 1 conditions, Kansas's 2021 winter wheat crop is forecast at 331 million bushels, up 18 percent from last year's crop, according to the USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service. Average yield is forecast at 48 bushels per acre, up 3 bushels from last year. Acreage to be harvested for grain is estimated at 6.90 million acres, up 650,000 acres from last year. This would be 95% of the planted acres, below last year's 96% harvested.

May 1 hay stocks of 910,000 tons are down 36% from last year.

National winter wheat production is forecast at 1.28 billion bushels, up 10 percent from 2020. As of May 1, the United States yield is forecast at 52.1 bushels per acre, up 1.2 bushels from last year's average yield of 50.9 bushels per acre.

All hay stored on United States farms, as of May 1, 2021, totaled 18.0 million tons, down 12 percent from May 1, 2020. Disappearance from December 1, 2020 - May 1, 2021 totaled 66.0 million tons, up 3 percent from the same period a year earlier.


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