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LANCASTER - A record
1900 U.S. winter wheat
harvest 1.85 billion
buahesl is near completion
while combining begins on a
drought-stricken spring
wheat crop.
As of July 1, total 1900
wheat production is forecast
at a record 2.32 billion
bushels, up eight percent
from 1979. This wheat will be
reaped from the largest area
planted in 30 years, with 10
million more acres likely to
be harvested than in 1979.
Chances are two out of
three that the final crop
outcome will be within 80
million bushels of the July
estimate.
On the strength of the
large crop, total U.S. wheat
supply in 1900-81 will be an
all tune high 3.22 billion
bushels. However, based on
a projected record large
disappearance a small
increase in domestic use and
record exports 1900-81
year end stocks may only
increase slightly from the
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Wheat harvest seen
at all time high
901 million bushels of a year
earlier.
On the world scene, un
proved crop prospects in
dicate 1980 wheat production
may reach 444 million
metric tons, substantially
above 1979’s short outturn
but shy of a new record. It is
expected that the United
States, Western Eurpoe, the
USSR, Eastern Europe, and
Pakistan will harvest larger
crops, while reduced
production is currently
projected for Canada, China,
India, and Australia.
On the basis of greater
demand in many importing
countries and the need for
stock rebuilding, world
wheat trade m 1900-81 will
likely be up over two million
tons from 1979-80 to a record
86 million tons
Based on these trade
projections, the United
States, which will have large
exportable supplies, could
ship a record 1.45 billion
bushels overseas in 1980-81.
Much will depend on sup-
plies available from ex
porting countries and their
export sales policies. The
large increase in purchases
by China and the absence of
sales to the Soviet Union
highlight early season U.S.
trade.
Wheat prices opened the
1980-81 season in a relatively
bearish atmosphere com
pared with the rapid price
advances during last year’s
harvest.
Farm prices were 20 to 40
cents per bushel lower,
reflecting the prospective
large crop. Concern about
adverse weather impacts on
crop development, par
ticularly in spring wheat
areas of the United States
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The word “record”
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