Colorado Crop Progress

With an update of Colorado’s Crop Production Report here is National Ag Statistics Service Mountain Regional Director Bill Meyer who says
Meyer: “So we had our Crop Production Report of the July — here we estimated the production for the small grains in Colorado and the largest crop which is winter wheat. We estimated the average yield for the state is 39 bushels per acre. It is up one bushel from last month and up one bushel from last year’s final yield. Total production is estimated 87.75 million bushels, up 3 percent from June but 2 percent below last year’s final production. For barley, we are estimating the yield at 137 bushels per acre, 13 bushels above last year. Total production is estimated at 8.49 million bushels, up 27 percent last year at this time. At the U.S. level, winter wheat yield is estimated at 43.7 bushels per acre; that is down .8 bushels from last month but up 1.1 bushels from last year. Total production is estimated at 1.46 billion bushels that is down 3 percent from last month but up 6 percent from 2014.”
He comments on winter wheat harvest so far in Colorado as of the July report release.
Meyer: “We had two percent harvested compared with 4 percent last year and a five-year average of 20 percent. At the beginning of this year, we were headed normal then we had a lot of cool, wet weather and they went behind. Hopefully we have some good warm weather now so people can get their crop harvested.”