date:May 12, 2016
015. It would be the largest winter wheat crop since 1,542,902,000 bus in 2013. Harvested area of winter wheat this year was forecast at 29,831,000 acres, down 8% from 32,257,000 acres in 2015, but the average yield this year was forecast at 47.8 bus per acre, up 5.3 bus per acre from last years 42.5 bus per acre. If the yield forecast is realized, the 2016 yield would equal the record yield set in 1999.
The U.S.D.A. forecast hard red winter wheat production this year at 862,522,000 bus, up 4%