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Wheat Scoop: Report Shows Fewer Wheat Acres
Kansas farmers planted just 8.6 million acres of wheat last fall, the lowest winter wheat planting acreage since 1957 and an 8% reduction from the fall, 2008 total. The 2010 Wheat Seedings Report, released by the National Ag Statistics Service Jan. 12, also reports that nationally, wheat acreage is down 14% from 2009, to 37.1 million acres. This is the lowest U.S. total since 1913.
