August crop report has higher U.S. and PNW wheat yields

Farm and Ranch August 13, 2010 Pick one of the major field crops in the U.S. and chances are USDA’s August crop report showed increased yield prospects from a month ago.

Glauber: “We are looking at looks like a record corn yield. It looks we are going to tie the record soybean yield, if these estimates turn out to be realized. In so far as wheat is concerned, again very strong yields. We have upped production estimates this month on yields and production.”

USDA economist Joe Glauber and that includes the Pacific Northwest where winter wheat yields for Idaho increased from 87 to 89 bushels an acre; Oregon’s went from 63 to 67 bushels and Washington’s from 65 to 67 bushels an acre. USDA says those are all among the top five yields on record for each state.

Spring wheat yields increased two bushels an acre for Idaho and Oregon at 82 and 57 bushels an acre respectively but Washington was unchanged at 56 bushels. The national average spring wheat yield forecast is record high and the hard red spring wheat crop could be the third largest on record.

Total U.S. wheat production this year is forecast at 2.26 billion bushels, two percent more than a month ago and two percent more than last year.

U.S. production of soft white wheat, the predominant class in the PNW, is pegged at 247 million bushels, up about 17 percent from 2009.

Russian and Black Sea production problems prompted USDA to boost U.S. export prospects 200 million bushels and drop both U.S. and world wheat ending stocks.

I’m Bob Hoff and that’s the Northwest Farm and Ranch Report on Northwest Aginfo Net.

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