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DATCP Releases Final Numbers on Crop Plantings, Grain Stocks
Wisconsin Ag Connection - 08/01/2012
The number of acres planted to principal crops in Wisconsin this growing season rose by 118,000 acres from last year, but is 26,000 acres lower than 2009. That's according to a report issued by the state's agricultural department on Tuesday, which confirmed the final numbers on crop acreage and grain stocks
for 2012.
Robert Battaglia, who serves as the state's top agriculture statistician, says Wisconsin growers planted 4.35 million acres of corn in 2012, 200,000 more than in 2011, and 150,000 more than farmers intended in March. Acres intended for grain are 3.45 million, up 130,000 from last year. Eighty-six percent of
Wisconsin's corn was planted to a biotech variety.
Soybean acreage for the Badger State were at 1.69 million acres, up 70,000 acres from last year. Wisconsin growers planted 10,000 more acres to soybeans than intended in March. Ninety-two percent of the beans were herbicide resistant.
Oat planting totals came in at 230,000 acres, up 20,000 acres from last year and is the second lowest on record. Acres intended for oat harvest are 120,000. Barley acres planted in the state total 30,000, down 3,000 acres from last year. Fifteen-thousand acres of barley are intended to be harvested as grain.
And alfalfa hay for dry hay in Wisconsin, at 1.50 million acres, is down 100,000 acres. Acres of other hay for dry hay are 500,000 acres, up 50,000 from 2011.
As for what is left of last year's harvest, Battaglia says corn stocks in Wisconsin were 154.1 million bushels as of June, down 10 percent from the same time last year. Corn stored on farms totaled 80 million bushels, and 74.1 million were off-farm. Soybean stocks totaled 23.3 million bushels, down 30 percent
from June of last year. On-farm storage was five million bushels, and 18.3 million bushels were in off-farm storage.
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