date:Jul 01, 2013
estimated at 11.7 million acres, the U.S.D.A. said.
Winter wheat planted area was estimated at 42,697,000 acres, up 1,373,000 acres, or 3%, from 41,324,000 acres a year ago. Harvested area was estimated at 32,270,000 acres, down 439,000 acres, or 1%, from 32,709,000 acres in the June Crop Production report but down 2,564,000 acres, or 7%, from 34,834,000 acres in 2012. Area planted to hard red winter wheat was 29.4 million acres, to soft red winter was 9.96 million acres and to white winter wa