(NDAgConnection.com) – Based on June 1 conditions, North Dakota’s 2022 winter wheat crop is forecast at 4.23 million bushels, up 114% from last year’s crop, according to the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service. Average yield is forecast at 47 bushels per acre, up 14 bushels from last year.

Acreage to be harvested for grain is estimated at 90,000 acres, up 30,000 acres from last year. This would be 90% of the planted acres, compared with last year’s 67% harvested.

Nationally, winter wheat production is forecast at 1.18 billion bushels, up 1 percent from the May 1 forecast but down 7 percent from 2021. As of June 1, the United States yield is forecast at 48.2 bushels per acre, up 0.3 bushel from last month but down 2.0 bushels from last year’s average yield of 50.2 bushels per acre. Producers in Missouri and Tennessee are expecting record yields. As of May 29, 29 percent of the winter wheat acreage in the 18 major producing States was rated in good to excellent condition, 19 percentage points lower than at the same time last year. Nationally, 72 percent of the winter wheat crop was headed by May 29, four percentage points behind the 5-year average pace.