New York winter-wheat production jumped more than 90 percent to 7.92 million bushels in 2020 from 4.16 million bushels last year, the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) recently reported. The Empire State’s average yield, at 66 bushels per acre, rose 3 bushels from 2019. Area harvested for grain was estimated at 120,000 acres, almost […]
New York winter-wheat production jumped more than 90 percent to 7.92 million bushels in 2020 from 4.16 million bushels last year, the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) recently reported. The Empire State’s average yield, at 66 bushels per acre, rose 3 bushels from 2019. Area harvested for grain was estimated at 120,000 acres, almost double the prior year’s 66,000 acres, NASS said.
U.S. winter-wheat production for 2020 totaled 1.17 billion bushels, down 11 percent from the 2019 national total of nearly 1.32 billion bushels, according to the USDA. Yield, at 50.9 bushels per acre, fell 2.7 bushels from last year. Area harvested for grain was estimated at just over 23 million acres, down more than 6 percent from the previous year, the agency noted.
