date:May 12, 2016
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% from 826,913,000 bus in 2015. Soft red winter wheat production was forecast at 356,569,000 bus, down 1% from 359,055,000 bus last year. Soft wheat millers in March had forecast the 2016 soft red winter wheat cr