USDA

MANHATTAN–Based on June 1 conditions, Kansas’s 2017 winter wheat crop is forecast at 304 million bushels, down 35 percent from last year’s crop, according to the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service.

Average yield is forecast at 44 bushels per acre, down 13 bushels from last year.

Acreage to be harvested for grain is estimated at 6.90 million acres, down 1.30 million acres from last year. This would be 92 percent of the planted acres, compared with last year’s 96 percent harvested.