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Farm News: Smaller Oat Crop

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Posted: 07.15.2011

Challenges faced by Wisconsin farmers this spring are being reflected in our 2011 oat crop.

Wisconsin’s Ag Statistical Service estimates that 2011 oat production in Wisconsin will come in around 7.92 million bushels. If realized, this would be a 20 percent decrease from the 9.86 million bushels produced in 2010. State officials say wet and cool weather this spring meant fewer planted oat acres - down 29 percent from last year.  The good news - yields should be higher.  Right now the forecast is for an average yield increase of 8.0 bushels from last year, to 66.0 bushels per acre this year. Wisconsin farmers plan to harvest 120,000 acres of oats for grain this year, down 50,000 acres from last year.

National oat production is forecast at 56.6 million bushels for 2011, down 30 percent from 2010. The expected yield at the national level is 60.5 bushels per acre, down 3.8 bushels from last year. Acres harvested for grain are expected to total 934,000 acres this year, down from 1.26 million acres last year.
On the other side of the small grain coin - Wisconsin wheat is coming on strong.

State officials estimate a Wisconsin wheat crop of 21.4 million bushels - a 46 percent increase from the 14.7 million bushels produced in 2010. The expected increase in production can be attributed to the anticipated increases in both harvested acres and yield per acre. Farmers in the state expect to harvest 315,000 acres of winter wheat for grain, 37 percent more than the 230,000 acres harvested last year. Yield is forecast at 68.0 bushels per acre, the same as last month’s forecast.

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