One acre of wheat produces an average of 40 bushels. Since each bushel of grain equals 60 pounds, this amounts to a total yield of 2,400 pounds of wheat per acre. In mid-2024, the USDA Economic ...

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To increase wheat production, farmers should aim for the crop’s later stages of development to happen at the optimal time.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s initial grain and oilseed outlook for the 2025-26 season is rather bearish.

Total wheat planted area for 2025 was projected at 47 million acres, up 0.9 million acres from last year. The lower production forecast reflected a slight reduction in harvested area to 38.4 million ...

to 160 bu. per acre wheat yields using state-of-the-art management practices. By comparison, in his home state of Kentucky most farmers treated wheat like a stepchild and wheat yields were ...

The USDA preliminarily projected the carryover of wheat on June 1, 2026, at 826 million bushels, up 32 million bushels, or 4% ...

per acre flash across his yield monitor in the Georgia Soybean Production ... on double-crop beans, and 100 bu. on wheat,” he says. In 2024, Harrell’s operation climbed to 4,500 acres ...