HUTCHINSON, Kan. — Reno County saw higher yields with last summer's wheat harvest than the year before. The Kansas Ag Statistics Service released their row crop numbers for 2020 on Thursday.
The numbers show that Reno County farmers planted 198,000 acres of wheat in 2020. Out of that 189,800 acres were harvested. Yields increased for the year by 5.5% to 53 bushels per acre. Wheat production also increased by 5.8% to 10,097,000 bushels.
The USDA also released its 2021 projections on crop values in Kansas. The value of winter wheat production is expected to total $1.27 billion, down 11% from the previous marketing year. The Kansas winter wheat price is projected to average $4.50 per bushel, up $0.42 from the last marketing year.