Posted on 9/30/2011
USDA released their 2011 Small Grains Annual Summary publication today, which looks back at the 2011 harvest year.
California winter wheat planted acreage for the 2011 harvest was revised downward to 670,000 acres from 730,000 acres, although their harvested acreage estimate remains the same at 420,000 acres. Average yield was increased to 2.55 tons/acre for a total production of 1,071,000 tons.
Durum acreage was reported as 120,000 planted acres with 115,000 of those acres harvested for grain. Yield was increased from their last report, from 3.15 to 3.27 tons/acre. Therefore, total Durum production is estimated at 376,000 tons.
Up-to-date USDA numbers are posted on the CA Wheat Commission website on the California Wheat Statistics page, California Historical Harvested Acreage.
