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USDA Crop Forecast Issued
Published Monday, May 12, 2008 at 04:48 AM
USDA forecasts 2008 U.S. winter wheat production at 1.78 billion bushels, up 17 percent from 2007. Harvested acreage is up 12 percent. Based on May 1 conditions, the U.S. yield is forecast at 44.3 bushels per acre, up 2.1 bushels from the previous year.

Hard Red production is up 5 percent from a year ago to 1.01 billion bushels. Soft Red production is up 54 percent and totals 551 million bushels. White production totals 215 million bushels, up 10 percent from a year ago. Of the White production total, 23.2 million bushels are Hard White and 192 million bushels are Soft White.

The U.S. all orange forecast for the 2007-08 season is 10.1 million tons, 33 percent higher than the 2006-07 final utilization of 7.63 million tons. Florida's all orange forecast, at 169 million boxes is 31 percent higher than last season's final utilization of 129 million boxes.


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