Wheatacre

According to the annual prospective plantings report published by the USDA National Agriculture Statistics Service, U.S. farmers are intending to plant the lowest acreage of spring wheat since 1972. Each year the prospective plantings report is ...

Last year saw a 450,000 acre increase in spring wheat acres over 2014 before dropping this year.Minnesota farmers are intending to plant 1.35 million acres of spring wheat this growing season, which is 9 percent less than 2015. It is an estimated 130 ...

All wheat acres will be down 9 percent nationwide, to 49.6 million acres, which would be the lowest number of acres planted to wheat since 1970, just before the big entrance of the Soviet Union into the world market, jacking up prices to the equivalent ...

WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S. — The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in its annual Prospective Plantings report surprised the trade with a larger-than-expected increase in 2016 corn planting intentions but lower-than-expected wheat and soybean ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Agriculture in its annual Prospective Plantings report surprised the trade with a larger-than-expected increase in 2016 corn planting intentions but lower-than-expected wheat and soybean intentions. The U.S.D.A. ...

The return of snow cover and colder weather have winter wheat growers heaving a sigh of relief — but they're still uncertain about the long-term future of the crop. Ken Gross, Ducks Unlimited agronomist for the group's winter wheat initiative, said a ...