2008 Annual Oilseed Summary and Table
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| Released: January 12, 2009 For more information contact: John Hilton or Thomas Chard at 1-800-835-2612. |
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| Montana's flaxseed production in 2008 was 72,000 bushels,
down from 180,000 bushels a year ago, according to the USDA, National
Agricultural Statistics Service, Montana Field Office. Growers planted
9,000 acres and harvested 8,000 acres in 2008, compared with 21,000 acres
planted and 20,000 acres harvested in 2007. The average yield for 2008
was 9.0 bushels per acre, unchanged from last year.
Production of mustard seed for 2008 was 9.59 million pounds, compared with 6.63 million in 2007. Planted acres were 27,000, up 12,000 from last year. Harvested acres were 23,400, compared with 13,000 acres in 2007. Mustard seed yields averaged 410 pounds per acre in 2008, down 100 pounds per acre from a year ago. Montana canola growers planted 7,500 acres in 2008, down 1,000 acres from 2007. Harvested acreage was 7,400 acres, down 700 acres from last year. The 2008 canola yield was 1,910 pounds per acre, up 720 pounds per acre from a year ago. Canola production totaled 14.13 million pounds, up from 9.64 million pounds in 2007. Growers produced 16.80 million pounds of safflower, down from 31.88 million pounds produced last year. Safflower planted acres for 2008 totaled 29,000, with 28,000 acres harvested. Last year there were 39,000 acres planted with 37,500 acres harvested. Yield was 600 pounds per acre, down 250 pounds per acre from 2007. Montana's 2008 all sunflower production was 650,000 pounds, compared with 2.97 million pounds produced in 2007. Producers in the state planted 1,500 acres and harvested 1,300 acres in 2008, compared with 2,600 planted acres and 2,500 harvested acres last year. The average yield was 500 pounds per acre for 2008, down 686 pounds per acre from last year. Yield was the lowest since the series began in 1999. Flaxseed production in 2008 totaled 5.72 million bushels, down 3 percent from last year and 48 percent below 2006. Harvested area totaled 340,000 acres in 2008, down 3 percent from last year while the average yield, at 16.8 bushels per acre, is down 0.1 bushel from 2007. Production decreased from the previous year in all four States in the estimating program (Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota). Mustard seed production for 2008 increased 19 percent from last year to 41.3 million pounds. Planted area, at 79,500 acres, is up 33 percent and harvested area, at 71,500 acres, is up 25 percent from 2007. Yields averaged 577 pounds per acre, 31 pounds below a year ago. Canola production in 2008 is 1.45 billion pounds, up 1 percent from 2007 but down 3 percent from the October forecast. The yield, at 1,461 pounds per acre, is up 223 pounds from last year's yield but down 53 pounds from October. The yield is the third highest since records began in 1991. Planted area is estimated at 1.01 million acres, 14 percent below last year's acreage. Harvested area, at 989,000 acres, is also down 14 percent from 2007. Production in North Dakota, the leading canola-producing State, is estimated at 1.31 billion pounds, down less than 1 percent from last year. Although the yield in North Dakota was up 230 pounds from 2007, harvested area was down 16 percent from the previous year. Safflower production in 2008, at 310 million pounds, is up 47 percent from 2007 and is the largest production since 1999. Growers planted 202,000 acres in 2008, an increase of 12 percent from last year, while harvested area, at 195,000 acres, is up 14 percent from the previous year. The yield, at 1,592 pounds per acre, increased 364 pounds from 2007. The 2008 sunflower production totaled 3.42 billion pounds, up 19 percent from 2007. The U.S. average yield per acre increased 3 pounds from last year to 1,429 pounds. Planted area, at 2.52 million acres, is 22 percent above last year. Area harvested increased 19 percent from last year to 2.40 million acres. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2008 Annual Oilseed Summary
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