The Pennsylvania winter wheat seedings report from USDA's National Ag Statistics Service is the first indicator of this year’s winter wheat acreage.
Planted area for harvest in 2023 is estimated at 285 thousand acres, up 6% from 2022 and up 6% from 2021.
The estimates in the report were based primarily on surveys conducted the first two weeks of December.
U.S. winter wheat planted area for harvest in 2023 is estimated at 37.0 million acres, up 11 percent from 2022 and up 10 percent from 2021. Seeding of the 2023 acreage was underway in early-September and began the month equal to the 5-year average pace. Throughout much of the season, planting progressed on pace with the 5-year average and reached 96 percent complete by November 13. Emergence was 1 percentage point ahead of the 5-year average pace on November 27.
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