The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services today announced that Virginia farmers harvested 13.9 million bushels of winter wheat during the summer of 2015. This is according to surveys conducted by the Virginia Field Office of USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS).
The harvest was down 22 percent from the previous year and down 2 percent from the August 2015 forecast. Yield is estimated at 66.0 bushels per acre, down 2.0 bushels from 2014 but up 3.0 bushels from August forecast.
Farmers seeded 260,000 acres last fall, down 30,000 acres from 2014. Area harvested for grain totaled 210,000 acres. Acres for other uses totaled 50,000 acres.
Barley production for Virginia is estimated at 1.20 million bushels, down 46 percent from the revised 2014 total. Average yield per acre, at 75.0 bushels, is down 4.0 bushels from the previous year. Producers seeded 46,000 acres in 2015, down 10,000 acres from last year. Harvested area, at 16,000 acres, is down 12,000 acres from 2014.
The 2015 oat production for Virginia is estimated at 304,000 bushels, up 70,000 bushels from last year’s total. Yield is estimated at 76.0 bushels per acre, down 2.0 bushels from the previous year. Area seeded totaled 12,000 acres, up 2,000 acres from the previous year. Harvested area, at 4,000 acres, is 1,000 acres above last year.
Virginia wheat stocks stored off the farm totaled 8.76 million bushels on September 1, 2015 compared to 10.67 million bushels stored off the farm a year earlier. Oats stocks stored off the farm on September 1, 2015 totaled 17,000 bushels and are unchanged from September 1, 2014.
Virginia corn stocks stored in off-farm facilities on September 1, 2015 totaled 2.76 million bushels, compared to 2.85 million bushels stored off-farm on September 1, 2014.
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