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Farmers plant the smallest area
to wheat since 1971
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Agriculture in its Acreage report issued on June 30 estimated the
area planted to all wheat in the United
States for harvest in 2010 at 54,305,000
acres, up 478,000 acres, or 1%, from
the March survey of producers' planting intentions but down 4,828,000
acres, or 8%, from 59,133,000 acres in
2009. Wheat plantings this year were
the smallest since 1971, two years before the huge Soviet wheat purchases
of 1973 that generated a breathtaking
expansion in wheat area in the United
States from 54 million acres in 1971 to
more than 80 million bus in 1976.
The all-wheat harvested area in

639,000 acres, or 5%, from 13,268,000
acres in 2009. The recent five-year average other-spring wheat planted area
was 13,932,000 acres.
The U.S.D.A. said in commentary
accompanying the other-spring wheat
plantings data, "Planted acreage is
above last year's level in all states
except Colorado, South Dakota and
Washington. The largest acreage increases are in Montana and North
Dakota, up 400,000 and 250,000 acres,
respectively."
Of the other-spring wheat area, hard
red spring wheat was estimated to account for 13.3 million acres compared
with about 12.6 million acres in 2009

All wheat planted area
(in million acres)
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Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture

2010 was projected at 48,263,000 acres,
down 1,605,000 acres, or 3%, from
49,868,000 acres in 2009. The harvested area forecast for the current year
inferred an abandonment rate of 11%
compared with nearly 16% in 2009.
The 2010 all-wheat harvested area
would be the smallest since 46,800,000
acres in 2006, when 18% of 57,334,000
acres planted were abandoned and
not harvested.
The area seeded to spring wheat
other than durum in 2010 was estimated at 13,907,000 acres, up only 1,000
acres from the March intentions but up

and on par with the recent five-year
average also at 13.3 million acres.
The harvested area of other-spring
wheat was projected at 13,590,000
acres, up 635,000 acres, or 5%, from
12,955,000 acres in 2009. It would be
the largest harvested area of otherspring wheat since 13,878,000 acres
in 2006.
The area seeded to durum was estimated at 2,675,000 acres, up 452,000
acres, or 20%, from March and up
121,000 acres, or 5%, from 2,554,000
acres in 2009. The U.S.D.A. noted
Montana and North Dakota plantings

Wheat carryover in 2010 surges to 973 million bus
WASHINGTON - Wheat stored in all
positions in the United States on June
1, comprising the 2010 wheat carryover, totaled 973,392,000 bus, up 48%
from 656,505,000 bus on June 1, 2009,
the U.S. Department of Agriculture
said in its latest Grain Stocks report.
On-farm stocks of wheat were
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estimated at 209,900,000 bus, up
49% from 140,745,000 bus a year
ago, while off-farm stocks totaled
763,492,000 bus, up 48% from
515,760,000 bus last year. Indicated
disappearance of wheat during the
March-May period was 383 million
bus, down slightly from the same

were up 70,000 and 150,000 acres,
respectively, from 2009. The recent
five-year average durum area was
2,412,000 bus.
The harvested area of durum in
2010 was projected at 2,588,000 acres,
up 160,000 acres, or 7%, from 2,428,000
acres in 2009.
The winter wheat planted area
was estimated at 37,723,000 acres,
up 25,000 acres from the most recent
previous estimate but down 5,588,000
acres, or 13%, from 43,311,000 acres
last year. It was the smallest winter
wheat planted area since 37,623,000
acres in 1970. Record small plantings
were estimated for Illinois, Indiana,
Missouri, Nebraska and Ohio.
Of the winter wheat planted area,
hard red winter wheat accounted for
an estimated 28.5 million acres, soft red
winter wheat accounted for an estimated 5.8 million acres, and white winter
wheat accounted for an estimated 3.4
million acres, the U.S.D.A. said.
The harvested winter wheat area
was projected at 32,085,000 acres, up
299,000 acres, or 1%, from 31,786,000
acres forecast in the June Crop Production report but down 2,400,000
acres, or 7%, from 34,485,000 acres
in 2009. It would be the smallest harvested area of winter wheat since
31,107,000 acres in 2006.
The U.S.D.A. estimated the area
planted to corn in 2010 at 87,872,000
acres, down 926,000 acres, or 1%, from
March intentions but up 1,390,000
acres, or 2%, from 86,482,000 acres in
2009. The corn planted area was the
second largest since 1946 after the 2007
planted area, the U.S.D.A. said. The
corn harvested area was projected at
81,005,000 acres, up 1,415,000 acres, or
2%, from 79,590,000 acres a year ago.
The U.S.D.A. estimated the soybean
planted area at a record 78,868,000
acres, up 770,000 acres, or 1%, from
the March intentions and up 1,417,000
acres, or 2%, from 77,451,000 acres last
year, the U.S.D.A. said. The harvested
area was forecast at a record 77,986,000
acres, up 1,614,000 acres, or 2%, from
76,372,000 acres in 2009. MBN
period last year, the U.S.D.A. said.
The largest regional wheat inventory on June 1 was held in the
Southwest, the principal hard red
winter wheat region, at 325,277,000
bus, up 76% from a year earlier. The
Upper Midwest, which includes the
principal hard red spring wheat
states, held 260,956,000 bus of
wheat on June 1, up 51% from a year
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