Oklahoma Farm Report’s Ron Hays talked on Monday with Oklahoma State Statistician Troy Marshall about the August Crop Production report released on August 12th.
Click on the Listen Bar below to listen to Hays and Marshall discuss the Crop production numbers for Oklahoma and the neighboring states of Texas and Kansas.
The 2024 Oklahoma Winter Wheat Crop in Oklahoma was left unchanged in the August report compared to the July USDA Crop Production report. NASS says Oklahoma wheat farmers have harvested 2.7 million acres- getting a yield of 39 bushels per acre for a total production of 105.3 million bushels, up 54% from the 2023 crop of just over 68 million bushels.
The Texas wheat crop was three million bushels smaller in 2024 versus 2023- at 74.25 million bushels. Meanwhile in Kansas, the largest wheat state in the union saw a 56% jump in total production in 2024 versus 2023 at 314.6 million bushels. Kansas is far and away the largest winter wheat producing state in the US- Washington is second with 125 million bushels and Oklahoma stands third based on the 105.3 million bushel 2024 crop.
The 2024 Oklahoma Cotton crop is forecast at 430 thousand bales, 105 percent higher than 2023.
Yield averaged 655 pounds per acre, compared with 560 pounds last year. Acreage harvested, at
315 thousand acres, is up 75 percent from last year. Keep in mind that this is based on crop conditions as of August first- with critical growing conditions still ahead.
The Texas Upland cotton production is forecast at 4.50 million bales, 66 percent higher than 2023. Yield
averaged 592 pounds per acre, compared with 618 pounds last year. Acreage harvested, at 3.65 million
acres, is up 74 percent from last year.
Oklahoma soybean production is forecast at 13.7 million bushels, up 28 percent from last year.
Yield is expected to average 30.0 bushels per acre, compared with 26.0 bushels in 2023. Harvested
acreage, at 455 thousand acres, is 11 percent higher than last year.
Oklahoma corn production is forecast at 55.4 million bushels, up 9 percent from the previous year.
Statewide yields averaged 142 bushels per acre, 7.0 bushels lower than 2023. Acres harvested for
grain, at 390 thousand, is up 15 percent from last year.
Oklahoma sorghum production is forecast at 12.0 million bushels, down 27 percent from last year.
Yield averaged 42.0 bushels per acre, down 5.0 bushels from the previous year. Acres harvested,
at 285 thousand acres, is 19 percent lower than 2023.
Finally, USDA’s August report provides us a look at hay harvested estimates for 2024- expecting a 21% smaller hay harvest in Oklahoma here in 2024 versus 2023. The number of acres of other hay to be harvested is 3.1 million acres, down 800,000 acres from what was harvested in 2023. The expected yield is unchanged from 2023 in 2024 at 1.7 tons, with a 5.27 million tons of hay expected to harvested in the state this year- which makes Oklahoma the third largest “other hay” crop in the US- behind Texas and Missouri.
Click here for the national Crop Production report for August 2024 from USDA. To see the Oklahoma/Texas breakdowns- click on the downlink below:
